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



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, why do you consider this a 'braindamage'?  You define
>
> Because such a complete lack of foreseeing as to name a system-wide command
> "enable" can not be anything but.
>

[snip]

>> a printer using lpadmin, you 'enable' it and you make it 'accept'
>> requests. Of course, you can also 'disable' it and make it 'reject'
>
> It is certainly not a problem if "enable", "disable", etc are commands
> issued from within lpadmin.  But having them as /usr/bin commands IS a very
> bad idea IMO.

It gets even worse. When you want to cancel a print job, you issue 'cancel'
command. :-)

Dragan

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