Re: CUPS doesn't see USB printer after being offline 2 weeks
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- Subject: Re: CUPS doesn't see USB printer after being offline 2 weeks
- From: Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:32:02 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] lmwtt13059.fsf@privacy.net>
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- In-reply-to: <3Ava7-6gr-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:30:07 +0100")
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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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