Suddenly a few days ago I could no longer start cups on port 631 on my Slack 11 computer. I got the
I changed cupsd.conf to listen to port 632 and it started fine. The thing is, I can't see anything running on port 631 (socklist | grep 631) prior to starting cups. After changing the cupsd.conf and starting, I see cups running on both 632 and 631. So why can't I start it on 631 when I don't see any other process there? (And on a related topic, why do I see it running on 631 even when I have it configured to run on 632. And the fact that it runs on 631 after I start it suggests it is free.)

I did not install or upgrade anything on this computer for a month or so.

Thanks for any ideas,

Brian

Brian,

The first thing I would do would be to reinstall the cups package. Occasionally I have had inexplicable problems that have disappeared on a reinstall.

tried it, no luck...

Thanks,
Brian