something touched my cupsd.conf

[Alexander Sack]

Binary package hint: cups

On this system I never had a printer. However, my cupsd.conf file was modified somehow:

Setting up cups (1.3.11-1ubuntu6) ...

Configuration file `/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.

Maybe its not cups itself that changed the conf file - I dont know, but something did as I get what i pasted above.

Are there packages that are known to touch that file? If so, please add the packages that do that without me touching printing ;).

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

CUPS itself can modify the cupsd.conf, for example by the server settings in its web admin interface. Also system-config-printer has options to configure CUPS ("Server"/"Settings") which can modify cupsd.conf.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Also the CUPS package itself does a hardware-specific (not static) change on cupsd.conf: It sets the "RIPCache" variable to 1/4 of the size of installed memory. As you do not change the memory amount in your system all the time, omce accepted this change the package build should stop asking on future updates.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Alexander,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with cups and printing. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know, and in the current version, run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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