Re: [arch-general] cups not starting on boot after last 2 kernel updates? -- where to put it in the DAEMONS line?

Karol Blazewicz [2011.08.09 1744 +0200]:

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

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It would appear that on Aug 8, Peter Bui did say:

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You have @cups in DAEMONS ... probably need @cupsd?

It would appear that on Aug 8, J. W. Birdsong did say:

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You need to start  cupsd in rc.conf daemons... not cups

It would appear that on Aug 8, David C. Rankin did say:

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Peter, J.W. -- thank you. (slaps self for stupidity) That is a 'forest-for-the-trees' issue it would have taken days to see!

Hmmmnnn. Now I'm confused... According to my console login prompt, I'm currently using 2.6.39-ARCH And after a recent pacman -Syu cups stopped loading for me until I changed my Daemons line to say cups rather than cupsd.

There had, if I remember right, been a {is it 'rc.confpacnew' or 'rc.conf.pacnew'?} that didn't have cups listed in the daemons line. Anyway I remember putting "cupsd" the new rc.conf first, and when that didn't work I edited it to just say "cups". I didn't think much about it at the time. All I cared was that my printer worked again.

But why would one Arch Linux installation need "cups" in the daemons line while another needs "cupsd"???

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Which version of cups needs 'cups' in the DAEMONS array?

It seems that older versions of the cups package installed /etc/rc.d/cups and not /etc/rc.d/cupsd. At least I had cups in the DAEMONS array, and it always worked until I did some pacman -Suy. It didn't take long to figure out, though, that the name of the script was now changed to cupsd. Cheers, Norbert