diff --git a/cups.init b/cups.init
index e33dc51..c4cf170 100644
--- a/cups.init
+++ b/cups.init
@@ -30,6 +30,16 @@
 #
 # heavily edited so that it's more like other scripts in init.d on Red Hat
 # Linux
+#
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides: cups
+# Required-Start: $syslog $local_fs
+# Required-Stop: $syslog $local_fs
+# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
+# Short-Description: The CUPS scheduler
+# Description: The CUPS scheduler
+### END INIT INFO
 
 # Source function library.
 . /etc/init.d/functions
diff --git a/cups.spec b/cups.spec
index be8fcf4..c0ee8bd 100644
--- a/cups.spec
+++ b/cups.spec
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %changelog
 * Tue Feb 26 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
+- LSB header for initscript (bug #246897).
 - Move HTML-related files to main application directory so that the CUPS
   web interface still works even with --excludedocs (bug #375631).