[TriLUG] Running multiple CUPS daemons on a single system

David Brain dbrain at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 12:00:27 EST 2013


Running each in it's own chroot might be in interesting way to keep
things separate.  Note I said interesting rather than easy...

David.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Glenn Starling
<multifacetedguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never tried running two or more instances of cups, but you might check
> for public system variables being set that interfere with each other.
> -- Glenn
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Andrew Stephenson <tendonut at gmail.com>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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