On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM Erwan David wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 03:16:29AM CEST, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> said: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 14, 2025, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > > > > I wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you > > > > > sudo systemctl disable cups # and maybe others > > > > > > > > Actually, if you follow the discussion, the CUPS Bonjour auto-discovery > > > > > > > > - it presumably handled by the cups-browsed package > > > > (you can uninstall it, or systemctl disable it, > > > > if you don't want printer auto-detection on your > > > > network) > > > > > > > > - it could also be handled by mDNS (?) > > > > > > Yep, 'cups-browsed' is the mDNS listener service (plugin for avahi?) so > > > that cups can find printers announcing themselves via mDNS. > > > > I'm not sure I understand, but > > $ sudo systemctl stop cups.service > > > > $ lp -d Canon_MG3600_series check-for-updates.sh > > lp: Bad file descriptor > > You stopped cups (ie the whole printing system), not cups-browsed (the mDNS > listener to get printers of the local > network announcing themselves by Zeroconf)
I need mDNS to print. I already tried disabling the avahi stuff and could not print - I have to turn it back on and printing magically worked. Supposedly there's another way to get printing to work but I haven't figured out the incantation for that :( Lee
