[TriLUG] Running multiple CUPS daemons on a single system

[Alan Porter]

This almost sounds like a good justification for running inside virtual 
machines.  Would that be an option?

Otherwise, you are making a lot of assumptions that every place in the 
cups code, they are using parameters instead of hard-coded names.  I can 
imagine it would be difficult to hunt down problems with something like 
"/var/run/cups.pid" being hard-coded in some script, not expecting there 
to be multiple instances on a single machine.

Alan


On 02/22/2013 04:11 PM, Andrew Stephenson wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm not exactly a frequent poster on here, but I sure read a
> ton of threads..
>
> I'm attempting an interesting project in the office and would like to run
> multiple CUPS sessions on the same hardware.
>
> I've managed to get everything set up the way I'd expect (create new init
> script, create separate /etc/cups directories, and create separate
> binaries. It seems like it should work just fine. But as soon as I kick off
> the init script, which sets the config directory as /etc/cupsRDU, it
> ignores that declaration and defaults to /etc/cups. I have no idea where it
> is getting that from, since I've changed every reference to /etc/cups to
> /etc/cupsRDU.
>
> Has anyone else tries something like this?


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# Alan Porter