Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:10:19 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The web based administration interface for cups appears to be missing. >> I just installed the unstable version today to fix the libpng problem. >> >> When I browse http://localhost:631/help I receive >> >> Not Found >> The requested resource was not found on this server. >> >> I haven't used this interface in a while so I can't say for sure it >> was due to the upgrade to unstable. >> >> I can say that the man page for cups-config does include >> SEE ALSO >> http://localhost:631/help >> >> Thanks in advance for any help. >> allan >> > > Oops. I spoke too soon, but do have a question. > > I had done an etc-update and took the new config (which specifically now > enables listening on 631). > > I tried /etc/init.d/cupsd restart but it failed ( [??] ) > > Then did /etc/init.d/cupsd zap; /etc/init.d/cupsd start both of which > succeeded. At this point I could *not* access localhost:631. > > However, a reboot fixed this. > > I am fairly sure a reboot should not be required (and the elog doesn't > mention one). What did I do wrong? > > Sorry for jumping to conclusions in my first msg. > > allan >
I have ran into things like this with services before. This is how I do. I stop the service, /etc/init.d/<name> stop. Then I make sure it is not still running somewhere. ps aux | grep <name> If nothing comes up but the grep command then it is not running. If something does come up then you need to kill it. I usually do killall <name>. If all is well, then zap it and restart the service. It should be a clean start. The only time you should have to reboot Linux is to start up a new kernel. Only windoze requires all that. I had a uptime of almost 10 months a while back and everything but the kernel was updated. I had done a emerge -e world at least twice. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list