Re: CUPS and network interfaces

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:47:32PM -0400, you (Celejar) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a pretty standard (default) CUPS installation. cupsd.conf
> contains the lines:
>
> > # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
> > Listen localhost:631
> > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>
> Yet tiger complains:
>
> > --WARN-- [lin002i] The process `cupsd' is listening on socket 631 (UDP) on every interface.
>
> Can someone help me out with this?
>
> Celejar
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hi Celejar,

depending on the level of security you'd like you may be continue thinking about it. If you receive this "complain" on your desktop box and you don't have highly important data on it that may be wanted by someone else.... I would not worry about it.

Cheers,
markus

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