Cupsd strangeness....

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:

> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 May 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> While this should be of absolutely no real concern.... my lack of ability 
>>> to resolve it is causing me sleepless nights.  I'm sure this should be an 
>>> easy one... I just can't seem to fix it.
>>> 
>>> Everything cups related is working perfectly fine.  However,  my dmesg 
>>> shows the following:
>>> 
>>> Starting cupsd.
>>> Starting cupsd.
>>> cupsd: Child exited with status 48!
>>> Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop}
>>> 
>>> And its driving me crazy!  Cupsd is trying to start twice?  and the second 
>>> time is giving an error.
>>> 
>>> What have I done wrong here?
>>> [~]         % ls /etc/rc.d | grep cups
>>> [~]
>>> % ls /usr/local/etc/rc.d | grep cups
>>> cups.sh.delme*
>>> cups.sh.sample*
>>> cupsd.delme*
>>> cupsd.sample*
>>> cupsd.sh*
>> Nowadays all executable scripts in rc.d/ will be executed, not only those 
>> ending on .sh
>
> Yes.  That was it.  Thanks.
>
> However, I had thought that the behavior to be different.  My man page (from 
> 6.0-RC?) reads:
> The following key points apply to old-style scripts in
>     /usr/local/etc/rc.d/:
>
> ·   Scripts are only executed if their basename(1) matches the shell
>    globbing pattern *.sh, and they are executable.  Any other files or
>    directories present within the directory are silently ignored.
>
> Has the behavior changed?  It was my understanding that files with *.sh or no 
> extension (yet executable), would be run.
This has changed one or to months ago - somebody posted it on 
some mailing list - but I really can't remember anymore (you 
could have a look at google). And to my surprise you are right: 
this isn't documented in the man pages yet.

It was recommended to remove all kinds of sample files - or at 
least to change their permissions.

Regards,

Uli.

>
> Thanks again.
>
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Uli.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> [~]         % grep cups /etc/rc.conf
>>> cupsd_enable="YES"
>>> #cups_enable="YES"
>>> 
>>> Using FreeBSD 6.1-RC as of Sat some time... but had this problem quite a 
>>> while.  I'm sure it started the last time I rebuilt the machine (two month 
>>> back maybe).  And I'm sure its a config error on my part.
>>> 
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>> Eric
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>
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> Eric
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