cups

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Wed Nov 10 02:37:22 PST 2004


On Wednesday 10 November 2004 03:01 am, Florian Hengstberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How do I start the cupsd a system startup?
> I had a look at /etc/rc.d but there is no start/stop skript!
> When I start the cupsd manually /usr/local/sbin/cupsd
> the daemon seems to stop after a time, no matter if the -F switch
> is enabled or not.

Many (not all) daemons that are not a part of the base system are 
started from scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.   Basically, files with 
names ending in '.sh' are executed with the argument 'start' during 
bootup.  They are also executed with the argument 'stop' during 
shutdown.

>
> A second question:
> Why is the topology of the directories of /usr/local/share/cups/model
> splitted up in
> languages (de, en ...), quite different to my Linux distro?
> I want to copy a .ppd file into one of these directories, but I cant
> figure out in which!
>
> Im using FreeBSD 5.2.1
>
> Thanks in advance
> Florian


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