Disable cups

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pianoman1976 Author

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Disable cups

I don't use any printing functions on this particular system. I have no printers set up and have network printing disabled, yet my Console is constantly full of entries such as:

Why am I constantly seeing active processes relating to cups? Is this just the way OS X works?

Can I disable cups?

Thank you.

iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM (X2), Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 11, 2009 7:36 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 11, 2009 9:20 PM in response to pianoman1976

#1 sudo launchctl list (org.cups.cupsd will be up there)

#2 sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist
#3 sudo launchctl list (org.cups.cupsd won't be up there. It is now disabled)
#4 sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist (org.cups.cupsd will be up there. It's enabled)
Run whatever log and see if that helps you.
What you are asking about, if I'm right, is that the service is inactive and paged out and just the run loop part of code is in memory & running.

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Answer 2

baltwo

Level 9

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Jul 11, 2009 9:17 PM in response to pianoman1976

Copy & paste this into your browser window: *http://127.0.0.1:631/* and explore the CUPS management system. Hopefully, you'll find the steps on disabling it.

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