[arch-general] /etc/dbus-1/systemd/cups.conf and /usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.socket files

[Myra Nelson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
>>> After my research on sysvinit, the simple version, I'm working my way
>>> through systemd. Two things I noticed about the cups configuration:
>>>
>>> 1: The cups.conf file in /etc/dbus-1/systemd reads
>>
>> Notice that this should have been "system.d" and not "systemd". These
>> are the dbus configuration files (for the system bus), and not the
>> systemd ones.
>>
>>> <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
>>>  "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
>>> <busconfig>
>>>   <!-- Only root can send this message -->
>>>   <policy user="root">
>>>     <allow send_interface="com.redhat.PrinterSpooler"/>
>>>   </policy>
>>>
>>>   <!-- Allow any connection to receive the message -->
>>>   <policy context="default">
>>>     <allow receive_interface="com.redhat.PrinterSpooler"/>
>>>   </policy>
>>> </busconfig>
>>>
>>> Do the allow send and allow receive interfaces need to be changed, or
>>> is this taken into account by the rest of systemd?
>>
>> Sorry that I can't help you with more details, don't know cups/dbus that well.
>>
>>> 2. The /usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.socket reads
>>> [Unit]
>>> Description=CUPS Printing Service Sockets
>>>
>>> [Socket]
>>> ListenStream=/var/run/cups/cups.sock
>>> ListenStream=631
>>> ListenDatagram=0.0.0.0:631
>>> BindIPv6Only=ipv6-only
>>>
>>> [Install]
>>> WantedBy=sockets.target
>>
>> Again, I don't know much about CUPS, so can't answer your question.
>> However, just in case it was not clear, the above socket  file gives
>> you:
>>
>> # ss -l -u -t | grep ipp
>> udp    UNCONN     0      0                    *:ipp                   *:*
>> tcp    LISTEN     0      128                 :::ipp                  :::*
>>
>> Where the tcp socket only accepts ipv6 connections. Please see
>> systemd.socket(5) and ipv6(7) for more details.
>>
>>> With the
>>> newer version of cups depending on avahi and the differences in the
>>> avahi hosts file and the hosts file, avahi uses gandalf.local while
>>> hosts still uses .localdomain.
>>
>> Not sure I got this last bit. Avahi defaults to using the "local"
>> domain, but this can be configured if you prefer something else (at
>> least I seem to remember doing that at some point).
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Tom
>
> Cool. I was just trying to make both the domains come out the same.
> I've tried it both ways, but can't get cups to work between the two
> boxes. Let me rephrase that. I have the printer set up on my SO's box
> and working. Then sudo firefox localhost:631, find/discover printers,
> finds the printer, attempt to connect and test the printer with a test
> page, "error can't find printer at arwen.localdomain". The pemissions
> on her box are about as lenient as you can get "Allow all" everywhere.
>
> Since all my network connections are static, and all the documentation
> I've ever read pointed to setting up the hosts file at 127.0.0.1
> localhost.localdomain localhost gandalf and ::01
> localhost.localdomain, and after reading the LWN article, I thought
> that might be the problem hence my question. On to more research.
>
> Thanks for you time and assistance.
>
> Myra
>
> --
> Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

Tom:

I got cups fixed with a little voodoo.

Now for the bad news. I've been working on the systemd stuff and
moving along, that is until I read news feed on Planet Arch by Dave
Reisner about using startx and xinit. Personally, I don't care if
xinit is a "stupid program", and "startx is a glorified compiled shell
script with some extra signal handling", they, IMO -- nothing humble
about it, work and give me a great deal of flexiblity in my system.
Since we seem to use broken shell scripts for the old init system, and
that's bad, here we are adding to that by scripting the behaviour of
xinit and startx to fit with systemd. Something about that just
doesn't seem kosher.

I want to reiterate something. I don't know Lennart Poettering, Dave
Reisner, or you for that matter, nor do I have any opinions on your
successes for failures. But based on the derogatory nature of most of
Mr. Reisner's comments, I would have to say he is one of the few
people in the world with a bigger ego than mine, but as one of my
former employers stated "at least you go out and back it up". I
thought, as did many people I've worked for and with, I had a lock on
the worst attitude in the world towards other, references available,
but I think I found my match. I've also developed an aversion to
Dave's approach, here are some examples:

> do you appreciate the system requiring an unknown amount of your (limited) time each day you decide to update?  don't you ever wish you could just say "hey computer 'ol pal, aggressively follow upstream > source for package X and merge remote user Y's with the local configuration, unless either requires changes to package Z -- then ask me first, cuz i run the show here"?

Yes I do appreciate the system requiring an amount of my time each
day. The day the system is in control they can bury me face down so
the world can X@(W (* Q)Y.

> SYSVINIT HAS NO POWER, NO FUNCTIONALITY, AND ABSOLUTELY ZERO USEFULNESS ON IT'S OWN.

Neither does systemd!!!!!!

> the "unix philosophy" (debatable in itself...) of doing one thing doesn't usually translate to LITERALLY DOING ONE THING.

Only because "modern programmers" want things so tightly bound
together they break this principle!!!!

> please please please, please, read that several times until it sinks in nice and deep; every single argument about sysvinit's "simplicity", "maturity", blah blah, woka woka, etc etc, and anything else related
> to it's stability is complete nonsense because ...
> YOUR BOOT PROCESS IS A MEGAMATRON SHELL SCRIPT, AND HAS PEANUTS TO DO WITH INIT; IN FACT, INIT IS NOT EVEN NEEDED.

I have and my IQ of 17, " we grant these applications the most
awesomest superpowers then give it the IQ of 17 or so." my 113 says
they seem to work fine and I might be able to fix them right here
instead of sending a patch upstream for those who aren't really
interested.

I may be branded a luddite, old fashioned, stubborn, backwards,
stupid, ignorant, etc, and as Mr. Reisner so eloqently stated "I'm not
sure most of the everyday arch users count" As Tom Gunderson pointed
out, this is probably true because the devs build arch for themselves.
They are intersted in positive helpful comments and feedback. Some
thing Mr. Reisner seems incapable of.

Since I'm sure this will be the last post I'm allowed on this list, a
little about me. I seem to be able to ask questions that are
considered incomprehensible or irrelavant. I realize this is way too
much information for this mailing list, but here's why.

 I'm bipolar, suffer from adult ADHD, I have dain bramage from CO2
poisoning (when I went to ICU my O2 sats were 35% and my CO2 stats
were 112), by blood oxygen saturation stays below the 95% recommended
for a healthy person (lung damage from H2S and SO2 poisoning and I'm
miswired and forget to breathe), I don't leave the house more than
once every two weeks so I don't have a panic attack, I don't play well
with others, and I suffer from fits of rage which can be
uncontrolable.

This means I have trouble deciphering documentation without reading it
5 or 6 times, then there is no guarantee. When I work on a program,
especially learning a new language, I get to start over everyday
becuase what I did the day before it gone - most of the time, When I
write something it has to be read and edited by someone or it sounds
like I'm an idiot, but I do my best. Maybe I should be using a Mac or
Windows, but hey "At least I'm trying", that should count for
something.

As for the so often mentioned "business benefits" of systemd, I could
care less. It was once said at Woodstock "A little capitalism isn't
all that bad", but that doesn't mean I want someone in cubicle
somewhere trying to tell me how I should use my computer, or that I'm
stupid because I don't want to use my computer the way he thinks I
should. Home desktop computer != business decision.

I would like to apologize for anyone I've offended, not ticked off, offended.

Tom: Keep up the good work.

Ciao for Now and to all a good night!

Myra Nelson

-- 
Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!