Cups printer woes

Tillotson

Cups on debian server. Doesn't startup script doesn't work, but will work manually after startup.

Tried commands "update-rc.d cups remove" and "update-rc.d -f cups defaults"

var/log/cups/error_log:
"Unable to bind socket for address 192.168.1.100:631 - Cannot assign requested address"

I'm guessing the script is trying to run before the network is working???
Simlinks for cups named S20cups, S35 and S40networking in rc folders - normal?

Has anyone had any experience of this?

Would an acceptable workaround be to create a bash script which checks if cups is running and if not starts cups, then cron it for every 10min or so? How would that go?

ps aux | grep cups | grep -v grep
if (?)
/etc/init.d/cups start

Skrynesaver

Tillotson wrote: »

var/log/cups/error_log:
"Unable to bind socket for address 192.168.1.100:631 - Cannot assign requested address"

I'm guessing the script is trying to run before the network is working???
Simlinks for cups named S20cups, S35 and S40networking in rc folders - normal?

Init starts the individual init scripts in order, you guessed right, rename S20cups to S80cups, it's just a symlink to the actual init script in /etc/init.d

hope this helps

Tillotson

Looking closer I don't think this is the issue.
The network and cups don't overlap on the same run level.
It really is wreaking my head, especially as it works perfectly when restarted

Thanks anyway

Tillotson

In case anyone is interested I couldn't find an answer to this anywhere.
I got around the problem by creating a new init.d script

/etc/init.d/delayedCups:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/restartCups &

sudo chmod +x restartCups

/usr/local/bin/restartCups:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/etc/init.d/cups restart

Then:
sudo update-rc.d delayedCups defaults

Honestly I still don't understand the problem, just happy it now works