Monthly Archives July 2009

Freebsd Samba won’t start.. silly cups

I don’t provide any print services from my FreeBSD box. So when samba refused to start because of a cups connection problem I was pretty confused.
[user@test ]$ tail -f /var/log/samba/log.smbd
[2009/07/29 10:06:14, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_connect(69)
Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused
After some google work I found this.
For those seeing the same error, it’s apparently [...]

OpenAudit views

Working on my OpenAudit view.  Trying to get down to 1 report that I can use to prioritize software/hardware upgrade paths for all staff.
This test is just to pull out Office and Windows verision/keys. Not interested in extra stuff like Visio or Project right now since they’re special cases.
Had to do some hacking because even [...]

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