How do I keep CUPS from starting in RHEL 7?
Issue
- We don't print from our RHEL 7 server and want to disable the CUPS service. I have disabled the service with "
systemctl disable cups
" and stopped it with "systemctl stop cups
" but it keeps getting restarted. How can I keep it from starting? - How to disable cupsd service in RHEL 6?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- cups
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