Start-up of freeBSD need help with one question.

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Jan 24 05:43:50 PST 2009


Bob Falanga <rfalang.bob at gmail.com> writes:

> When I try to configure a printer, CUPS requires a user id, my own or root.
> But it will not accept either.
> Interestingly, at boot up time I saw CUPS started three times but cannot
> find where all the requests for start is.
> I added a line in rd.conf to start CUPS but that is the only place.

I'd try to solve the second problem before the first (for me, the root
password works fine; although normally, I don't *have* a valid password
on the root account).

The correct way to start cups from rc.conf is:
cupsd_enable="YES"
Is that how you do it? 

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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