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System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

ProcedureHow to Enable or Disable the ppd-cache-update Service

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. To enable or disable the application/print/ppd-cache-update service, type:


    # svcadm enable|disable application/print/ppd-cache-update

  3. To verify that the service is enabled or disabled, type:


    % svcs application/print/ppd-cache-update

    If the service is enabled, the output is as follows:


    % svcs application/print/ppd-cache-update
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Apr_26   svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default

    If the service is disabled, the output is as follows:


    % svcs application/print/ppd-cache-update
STATE          STIME    FMRI
diabled        Apr_26   svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default
See Also

For step-by-step instructions on using the ppdmgr utility with the -u option to update the PPD cache file, see How to Update or Rebuild the PPD Cache File by Using the ppdmgr Utility.