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CUPS Administrative Guide

You're reading from  CUPS Administrative Guide

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2008
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781847192585
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Ankur Shah Ankur Shah
Profile icon Ankur Shah

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

CUPS Administrative Guide
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
2. Preface
1. Introduction 2. Building and Installing CUPS 3. Printer Management 4. Managing Multiple Printers at a Time 5. CUPS Server Management 6. Client Setup 7. Quota Management 8. Monitoring CUPS 9. File Typing and Filtering 10. Security

Server Directives


The Common UNIX Printing System server's behavior is configured through the directives contained in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. The CUPS configuration file follows the same syntax as the primary configuration file for the Apache web server. Users familiar with editing Apache's configuration file should feel at ease when editing the CUPS configuration file.

Note

Warning: Prior to editing the configuration file, you should make a copy of the original file and protect it from writing, so you will have the original settings as a reference, and can re-use it as necessary. Copy the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file and protect it from writing with the following commands:

$sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.original
$sudo chmod a-w /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.original

You can then edit the file with your favorite editor.

Editing the cupsd.conf File Via the Web Interface

Type the following URL in your favourite web-browser:

http://localhost:631/admin

Click on the Administration...

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