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.TH cupsd 8 "CUPS" "9 March 2009" "Apple Inc."
.SH NAME
cupsd \- cups scheduler
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cupsd
[ -c
.I config-file
] [ -f ] [ -F ] [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -t ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIcupsd\fR is the scheduler for CUPS. It implements a printing system based
upon the Internet Printing Protocol, version 2.1.  If no options are specified
on the command-line then the default configuration file
\fI/etc/cups/cupsd.conf\fR will be used.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 5
-c config-file
.br
Uses the named configuration file.
.TP 5
-f
.br
Run \fIcupsd\fR in the foreground; the default is to run in the
background as a "daemon".
.TP 5
-F
.br
Run \fIcupsd\fR in the foreground but detach the process from the
controlling terminal and current directory. This is useful for
running \fIcupsd\fR from \fIinit(8)\fR.
.TP 5
-h
.br
Shows the program usage.
.TP 5
-l
.br
This option is passed to \fIcupsd\fR when it is run from
\fIlaunchd(8)\fR.
.TP 5
-t
.br
Test the configuration file for syntax errors.
.SH COMPATIBILITY
\fIcupsd\fR implements all of the required IPP/2.1 attributes and
operations. It also implements several CUPS-specific administration
operations.

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	print/cups
=
Stability	Volatile
.TE 
.PP
.SH SEE ALSO
\fIbackend(7)\fR, \fIclasses.conf(5)\fR, \fIcups-deviced(8)\fR,
\fIcups-driverd(8)\fR, \fIcups-lpd(8)\fR, \fIcups-polld(8)\fR,
\fIcupsd.conf(5)\fR, \fIfilter(7)\fR, \fIlaunchd(8)\fR,
\fImime.convs(5)\fR, \fImime.types(5)\fR, \fIprinters.conf(5)\fR,
.br
http://localhost:631/help
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2009 by Apple Inc.
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.SH NOTES

.\" Oracle has added source availability information to this manual page
This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.4.5/cups-1.4.5-source.tar.bz2

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.cups.org/.