Howdy,

i did a dumb thing today and left ab ubuntu box with my 12 year old sister in law and her it illerate mother. well that's not the dumb thing, it's that i connected a printer up this afternoon and got it runnign fine in cups but i'd stopped the service on boot when i first installed the box and only started cups directly this afternoon and it's still not set to start cups on boot. her account isn't set as an administrator and my ubuntu knowledge isn't great. if i get them to su to my admin account and then sudo something to make the service start on boot, what is that something? no idea what the gui app for this is called and not sure it'd even be allowed to connect to the running X server as it'd be owned by the non admin account...

if someone can tell me the exact console commands so i can tell them, i'd grateful. at least we can add a symlink in there, not sure of the exact paths though.

cheers

Chris

If it's running ubuntu then I assume that they do actually boot into X? Go to System -> Administration -> Services; the print service should be in there; make sure it's ticked.

Cheers.

yeah cheers, exactly what i didn't ask for...

Well it works for me. Maybe you have to do it with your account or add their account to the 'admin' group.

The service will then start at boot whoever account is logged into as boot time is run as root (for all intents and purposes).

i just want to know how to do it outside of X. that's all.

Looks like it defaults to /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys
Just create it as a symlink to /etc/init.d/cupsys

super... just what i needed. thanks.