CUPS doesn't re-read /etc/cups/ppd/ ?

We're working with a "multiclient installation", basically we tried to spread the CUPS configuration on all Mac's in a computer room. (including a backend).
We copied /etc/cups/printers.conf to all the boxes, worked great they do know the printer, but as "generic".
We use a custom PPD file, and copy it to:
/etc/cups/ppd/Printernamefromcups
For some reason the printer keeps using the Generic driver and not the newly copied PPD, even after a restart of PrintingServices.
Anyone able to tell me how I can force CUPS to re-read the PPD?

Hi
You could try:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4152765&#4152765
as well:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3290222&#3290222
Might provide more insight into your problem.
Tony

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Missing file: /private/etc/cups/ppds.dat

Cannot open my printer's utility - Lexmark z23 - All was well, then we updated to 10.4.5.
I know this file is missing: /private/etc/cups/ppds.dat
Any thoughts on where I might access it would be appreciated, or, confirm for me I'm gonna have to slog thru all the packages on the original install cds to find it.... : - 0
Thank you!!!!
YES, I read archived threads and know all about Miguel; - )

Geez Greg - Thanx for your time but that response is
almost insulting - Try restarting? That's like number
one on the newbie hit parade dude, right along
starting up holding down the shift key or running
fsck -y. Thanks for trying.
And your response is supposed to make others want to reply?
Anyone else? Please. I'm starting to think I got
screwed from using this printer when I upgraded my OS.
A quick search indicates that Greg is correct that the file in question is built by cupsd as needed. Surprised? I'm not. You could have restarted your computer several times in the amount of time it took you to post your rant.
If you don't want to restart your computer, then just restart CUPS. If that doesn't work, reset the printing system from the Printer Setup Utility. You can also search and search through the installation disks. You won't find that file, however. CUPS gets installed as part of the Essentials.pkg. The ppds.dat file, however, is not a file that gets installed.
Back to your original post -- I don't see a connection that would lead to a conclusion that the missing ppds.dat file is causing your printer's utility not to open. Even when you restore the ppds.dat file, you may not be able to open the utility for some other reason.
Matt
Mac Mini; B&W G3/300

Terminal Error: Unable to read "/private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf" due to errors.

After finding out that my Kodak ESP C310 printer was no longer printing after installing OS X Yosemite, I tried entering these into the terminal to get the driver working again.
sudo sh -c 'echo "Sandboxing Relaxed" >> /etc/cups/cups-files.conf'
sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd
Nothing happened the first time I tried it, so I tried it again with still no luck. Now within seconds of opening the terminal I get this message :
" /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf"
It pops up every few seconds, so it is practically impossible for me to type anything into the terminal without it popping up right in the middle. I tried the fix from the other discussion on this issue, and that didn't work. also I'm noticing that my printer isn't even added under "printers and scanners" anymore. I tried to re-add it, but I cannot without a driver that functions with 10.10.1
Any suggestions on how I should deal with this?

The permissions and ownership on /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf should be:
/bin/ls -leO@ /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root _lp compressed 3297 Mar 8 2014 /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf
See "man cups-files" for the format of the cups-files.conf file
The contents of the /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf file should look like:
# "$Id: cups-files.conf.in 11203 2013-07-26 21:32:33Z msweet $"
# Sample file/directory/user/group configuration file for the CUPS scheduler.
# See "man cups-files.conf" for a complete description of this file.
# List of events that are considered fatal errors for the scheduler...
#FatalErrors config
# Do we call fsync() after writing configuration or status files?
#SyncOnClose No
# Default user and group for filters/backends/helper programs; this cannot be
# any user or group that resolves to ID 0 for security reasons...
#User _lp
#Group _lp
# Administrator user group, used to match @SYSTEM in cupsd.conf policy rules...
SystemGroup admin
SystemGroupAuthKey system.print.admin
# User that is substituted for unauthenticated (remote) root accesses...
#RemoteRoot remroot
# Do we allow file: device URIs other than to /dev/null?
#FileDevice No
# Permissions for configuration and log files...
#ConfigFilePerm 0644
#LogFilePerm 0644
# Location of the file logging all access to the scheduler; may be the name
# "syslog". If not an absolute path, the value of ServerRoot is used as the
# root directory. Also see the "AccessLogLevel" directive in cupsd.conf.
AccessLog /private/var/log/cups/access_log
# Location of cache files used by the scheduler...
#CacheDir /private/var/spool/cups/cache
# Location of data files used by the scheduler...
#DataDir /usr/share/cups
# Location of the static web content served by the scheduler...
#DocumentRoot /usr/share/doc/cups
# Location of the file logging all messages produced by the scheduler and any
# helper programs; may be the name "syslog". If not an absolute path, the value
# of ServerRoot is used as the root directory. Also see the "LogLevel"
# directive in cupsd.conf.
ErrorLog /private/var/log/cups/error_log
# Location of fonts used by older print filters...
#FontPath /usr/share/cups/fonts
# Location of LPD configuration
#LPDConfigFile launchd:///System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cups-lpd.plist
# Location of the file logging all pages printed by the scheduler and any
# helper programs; may be the name "syslog". If not an absolute path, the value
# of ServerRoot is used as the root directory. Also see the "PageLogFormat"
# directive in cupsd.conf.
PageLog /private/var/log/cups/page_log
# Location of the file listing all of the local printers...
#Printcap /Library/Preferences/org.cups.printers.plist
# Format of the Printcap file...
#PrintcapFormat bsd
#PrintcapFormat plist
#PrintcapFormat solaris
# Location of all spool files...
#RequestRoot /private/var/spool/cups
# Location of helper programs...
#ServerBin /usr/libexec/cups
# SSL/TLS certificate for the scheduler...
#ServerCertificate /Library/Keychains/System.keychain
# SSL/TLS private key for the scheduler...
#ServerKey
# Location of other configuration files...
#ServerRoot /private/etc/cups
# Location of Samba configuration file...
#SMBConfigFile
# Location of scheduler state files...
#StateDir /private/etc/cups
# Location of scheduler/helper temporary files. This directory is emptied on
# scheduler startup and cannot be one of the standard (public) temporary
# directory locations for security reasons...
#TempDir /private/var/spool/cups/tmp
# End of "$Id: cups-files.conf.in 11203 2013-07-26 21:32:33Z msweet $".

[SOLVED] CUPS doesn't work

Hi there,
I'm configuring Arch on my Dell d600. I installed cups via paman and started it with /etc/rc.d/cups start. There were no errors on the commandline. grep -R [Cc]ups * in /var/log/ showed only the following in cups/error_log:
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4)
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp...
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Using policy "default" as the default!
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Full reload is required.
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 35 types, 39 filters...
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Full reload complete.
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
I [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Resuming new connection processing...
E [14/Sep/2008:16:00:01 +0200] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: clients=0
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: jobs=0
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: jobs-active=0
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: printers=0
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: stringpool-string-count=168
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=4872
D [14/Sep/2008:16:00:02 +0200] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=3632
cupsctl gives me no output (just hangs) and the webinterface is unreachable.
There is also no file /var/log/cups/acess_log.
Help?
Last edited by crom (2008-09-14 19:41:09)

I tried various adresses: localhost, D600, and the ip.
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost D600
/etc/rc.conf:
HOSTNAME="D600"
Even 127.0.0.1:631 doesn't succeed.
Edit:
Found it. 'lo' was in the INTERFACES array in rc.conf. I don't use the normal networking daemon, using wicd instead.
I took it out and rebooted. Now i can access the web-interface.
EDIT: How do i mark this solved?
Last edited by crom (2008-09-14 15:24:54)

Repaing Permissions = Group Differ on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, grou

Repaing Permissions = Group Differ on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, groups is 26.
It says this everytime, even when it was brand new...
What does this mean? Whay doesn't it go away after repairing?

This error message has been occurring since Mac OS X 10.5.4 I believe, it's not harmful in any way to the operation of your Mac, so I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure Apple will have this fixed in a future update.

[SOLVED] CUPS doesn't detect USB Samsung ML-2010 printer

Hi. I only speak a little English. Sorry for that.
I have got an USB Samsung ML-2010 printer. Before I used cups-usblp from AUR, and it worked. But it doesn't work now. The cups-usblp maintainer suggests to use cups instead of cups-usblp. Searching with google, it appears that other people don't have problems with this printer, cups, and archlinux. But I do. Cups' web interface doesn't detect it.
Well, this is how are the things now:
$ lsusb | grep Samsung
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04e8:326c Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd ML-2010P Mono Laser Printer
$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/004
crw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 189, 131 mar 4 09:56 /dev/bus/usb/002/004
$ grep usb /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
# 'libusb' device nodes
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", MODE="0664"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", IMPORT{builtin}="usb_id"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACES}=="*:0701??:*", GROUP="lp"
$ sudo grep SystemGroup /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
SystemGroup sys root lp
$ groups
lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist usblp
$ lsmod | grep usblp
(no output)
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-cups_device_link.rules
KERNEL=="lp[0-9]", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="lp"
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-usbprinter.rules
ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="326c", MODE:="0660", GROUP:="lp"
$ rc.d status cupsd
:: Checking cupsd status [STARTED]
$ pacman -Q cups ghostscript gsfonts gutenprint foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-nonfree foomatic-filters splix
cups 1.5.2-1
ghostscript 9.05-1
gsfonts 1.0.7pre44-3
gutenprint 5.2.7-3
foomatic-db 1:4.0.7_20110707-1
foomatic-db-engine 1:4.0.7_20110707-1
foomatic-db-nonfree 1:4.0.7_20110707-1
foomatic-filters 1:4.0.7_20110707-1
splix 2.0.0-11
I open http://localhost:631 in my browser, click "add new printer" and I get just "Serial printer #1"
at "local printers". There isn't my printer. I use KDE, and KDE's tool for adding printers doesn's detect it either.
I miss archlinux, but I need to print.
What may be wrong? What may be I am missing?
Thanks a lot for your comments and help.
Last edited by felihommen (2012-03-04 20:33:39)

Solved!
Restarting cupsd didn't work.
But reinstalling cups...
$ sudo pacman -Rdc cups (it is a dependency of kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde which I had installed)
$ sudo rm -r /etc/cups/*
I realize cupsd is already running:
$ ps aux | grep cupsd
root 1549 0.0 0.1 75548 4080 ? Ss 21:04 0:00 cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
felipe 1690 0.0 0.0 8416 1028 pts/1 S+ 21:13 0:00 grep cups
I kill it
$ sudo -SIGKILL 1549
$ ps aux | grep cupsd
felipe 1694 0.0 0.0 8416 1024 pts/1 S+ 21:13 0:00 grep cups
Ok. Reinstall cups
$ sudo pacman -S cups
Start cups daemon:
$ sudo rc.d start cupsd
Open firefox. Go to web interface, bla, bla, bla.... And it's there!
I feel really silly. It was a fresh install, so I didn't think about reinstalling.
Printed some jobs and worked perfectly. I used the gutenprint driver.
Thanks a lot, pyther. I thought yours wasn't a very useful suggestion, but it really was. I'm so happy. I owe you.

ERROR when repairing permissions: Group differs on "private/etc/cup"

Hi,
When I run permissions repair on my Leopard 10.5.4 I get the error message:
ERROR when repairing permissions: Group differs on "private/etc/cup", Should be 0, group is 26
Any idea why... It pops up every time I run permissions repair so I don't think it is really getting repaired.
Thanks.

Ignore it. It's been reported as a bug and is under investigation.

Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.

Greetings.
After performing Verify Disk Permission, i have this massage:
*Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.*
Immediately i performed Repair Disk Permission but in the end i still get this massage.
Any idea what dose that means?
Thank you so much.
Cheers.

ChrisWad wrote:
How do you submit a bug to Apple as I want to put some weight behing this one.
Chris
Why? Who says it's a bug worth worrying about?
Ever since Repair Permissions was introduced (around 10.1.5 I seem to remember, although it was 10.2 before it was integrated into Disk Utility) there have been occurrences of these "spurious" errors.
Take a look at these:
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Spurious Permission errors in OS X 10.3
Spurious Permission errors in OS X 10.4
Some of these disappeared with point updates, others didn't. They did not prevent anyone's system working. They were acknowledged as unimportant in this article: Disk Utility reports some messages that you can ignore when checking permissions.
I didn't write an equivalent for 10.5, because there were so many ACL and SUID errors which changed with each version, see Mac OS X 10.5: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions reports issues with SUID files.
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I am working tech support for a college and a faculty member currently working abroad called in with a problem that Microsoft Word for Mac would lock up everytime he tried to save or print a file. I remoted into his machine and I tried the usual suspects and was able to determine that nothing would print at all from any app, and in fact when I went to system preferences and tried to open the printers, it locked up system preferences. Digging deeper, I discovered that I was getting this message in console:
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The error kept repeating. I researched and found this thread:
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sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
I got an error in terminal that "No such file or directory existed"
So I checked and sure enough, inside of /private/etc/ there was no folder for cups. Its just gone. I assume that the folder being missing is the root of the problem, but I cant figure out how to get it back for him, especially considering that I am trying to assist him remotely. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

# Become root
sudo -s
cd /private/etc
# Make the tar archive in /Users/Shared
tar -cjvf /Users/Shared/cups.tar.bz2 cups
# Exit being the root user
exit
cd /Users/Shared
# Check the contents of the tar archive
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drwxr-xr-x 0 root   _lp         0 May 6 17:33 cups/
dr-x--x--x 0 _lp    admin       0 May 7 18:05 cups/certs/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      4524 Jan 20 2012 cups/cupsd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      4380 Dec 23 2011 cups/cupsd.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      5978 May 13 2010 cups/cupsd.conf.bak
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      6091 Jul 6 2011 cups/cupsd.conf.default
drwxr-xr-x 0 root   _lp         0 May 13 2010 cups/interfaces/
drwxr-xr-x 0 root   _lp         0 Apr 30 10:10 cups/ppd/
-rw------- 0 root   _lp      1624 May 6 17:33 cups/printers.conf
-rw------- 0 root   _lp      1624 May 5 16:53 cups/printers.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp       172 May 13 2010 cups/snmp.conf
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Almost every time I Repair Permission, it finds and repairs "Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26." What is that? Why does it happen? Thanks

Well what I've seen is that DiskUtility always finds some permissions somewhere to fix unless you are starting with a blank disk. There's a lot of data inside that machine that can jump settings for various reasons. I don't lose sleep over a few permission errors and subsequent fixes. And here's a freebe;http://localhost:631/ to manage your printers.

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http://paste.pocoo.org/show/303448/
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http://paste.pocoo.org/show/303449/
/var/log/cups/error_log
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/303452/
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Removed /etc/cups folder :((

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