[Foomatic] Using usb IDs for autodetection
Joe Shaw
joe at ximian.com
Thu Apr 15 07:52:13 PDT 2004
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 04:41, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Perhaps this is was caused by the "backend-probing-which-is-available"
> of the cupsd when and only when it starts:
>
> A quote from what Kurt Pfeifle explained on cups at easysw.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> The cupsd on startup runs each executable it finds in
> "/usr/lib/cups/backend/" *with no argument* (for normal
> operation, backends require to be run with 5 or 6 specific
> arguments).
Yeah, I've run into this with USB printers and hotplugging... it's
pretty lame. What I've taken to doing is signalling cupsd with a HUP so
that it'll reload the backend.
Joe
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