Dear Experts,

CentOS 7 outsmarted me (again…).

Could someone tell me where cups print queues’ default settings are stored?

In the past I was doing rather trivial thing: I was setting up prototype machine (making kickstart file based on it), then I was configuring all printers on prototype machine. After which (with cups daemon stopped) I
was just packing /etc/cups (and maybe /usr/share/cups/model if extra ppd’s were added). Then as a post-install I was just moving /etc/cups off the way, and unpacking /etc/cups, and all my printer configuration was there on newly built machine. Not anymore! After done what is described above I
indeed have all printers, but queue defaults a weird: “double sided short edge” instead of “double sided long edge” as was configured on the prototype machine. What is more setting off is: recursive grep of /etc does not reveal files containing these settings (OK, OK, I know, I’m stupid, I don’t know what pattern to grep for, but they are definitely not in /etc/cups AFAIK, or at leas not as ASCII…).

Any insight into the system with – *cough* *cough* – binary configuration files?

Incidentally, how do _you_ replicate CUPS configuration on CentOS 7 ?

Thanks a lot for your help !

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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