CUPS loses printer setup between restarts

[pm02134]

If I reboot my machine or restart cups manually with

% /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart

my printer gets lost

% lpq
lp: error - PRINTER environment variable names non-existent destination "hp"!

and I have set it back up with

% /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m HP-LaserJet_4_Plus-ljet4.ppd

is this supposed to happen? I figure I could fix it by altering the start sequence in /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups, but I'd like to know if there is a more robust way to do it.

Peter


NITTY-GRITTY INFO
the ppd file is in /usr/share/cups/model and I restarted the daemon with

% killall -HUP cupsd

I'm running FC4-2.6.11-1.1369 with cups-1.1.23-15

[pm02134]

I noticed that my /etc/cups/printers.conf file was empty. Shouldn't lpadmin or the web interface modify that file for me??

I manually added the following lines:

<DefaultPrinter hp>
Location Under the table
Info 5 Dollar HP LaserJet 4 Plus
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
</Printer>

I assume that /etc/cups/ppd/hp.ppd points cups to the ljet4 ppd file, but I'm not sure how that got created in the first place (perhaps a previous call to lpadmin??)

peter

[intenzity513]

I had he exact same problem in FC4 (2.6) KDE, if I used Configure inside KDE, it would not save the printer configuration to /etc/cups/printers.conf.

I had to add this to /etc/cups/printer.conf to add one of my network printers:

<DefaultPrinter hp_8100n>
Info HP LaserJet 8100n
Location Communications Center
DeviceURI socket://x.x.x.x:9100
State Idle
StateMessage HPLJ8100n is idle.
Accepting Yes
</Printer>

After I added this, I restarted cups, and the printer shows up, then I had to go into Configure - KDE Control, and change the print driver from raw to the coresponding HP 8100n driver, oddly enough after another cups restart, the new driver info was retained.

Scott