Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem with CUPS and hope that someone can help me > with the solution. ... > Does anyone have an idea why the strangely named process runs with root > rights on one machine, but not on the other? this is my guess... purge the problem installation of cups and reinstall. i suspect you may have done some kind of update or removal of a suggested component or something like that. songbird