From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 13:43:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C121106566B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112788FC19 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 2916 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2009 13:42:28 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jan 2009 13:42:28 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88CE150820; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:42:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 13D471CCDD; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:42:24 -0500 (EST) To: Bob Falanga References: <58d1e8d30901230444x17e3e979ofa9f38e2cddc0e0f@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:42:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <58d1e8d30901230444x17e3e979ofa9f38e2cddc0e0f@mail.gmail.com> (Bob Falanga's message of "Fri\, 23 Jan 2009 07\:44\:36 -0500") Message-ID: <44iqo4vn0f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Start-up of freeBSD need help with one question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:43:50 -0000 Bob Falanga writes: > When I try to configure a printer, CUPS requires a user id, my own or root. > But it will not accept either. > Interestingly, at boot up time I saw CUPS started three times but cannot > find where all the requests for start is. > I added a line in rd.conf to start CUPS but that is the only place. I'd try to solve the second problem before the first (for me, the root password works fine; although normally, I don't *have* a valid password on the root account). The correct way to start cups from rc.conf is: cupsd_enable="YES" Is that how you do it? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/