Re: CUPS doesn't see USB printer after being offline 2 weeks

[Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net>]

CW Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:04:05PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
>> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh(hmh@debian.org) is reported to have said:
>> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
>> > > hpotter:/home/daddy# enable "Epson_R300"
>> > > bash: enable: Epson_R300: not a shell builtin
>> > 
>> > Well, the !@#$$#@ that had the brilliant idea of calling a CUPS program
>> > "enable" is to blame for this.   IMHO the CUPS maintainer should have
>> > overriden the idioticity(sp?) and renamed it to "cups_enable" or something
>> > like that.
>
> Considering the widespread use of bash it is certainly unfortunate that
> it is the same as a bash builtin.


Actually, 'enable' is part of System V printing system with predates both
CUPS and bash by a large margin. 

So, it is the other way round: it is unfortunate that bash has an builtin
that is the same as the SySV printing administration command.

Dragan

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