On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:51:30 +0100 Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That doesn't look very healthy but I don't know what significance it > has in the context of this report. My system shows "Active: active > (waiting)". Brian, for comparison, this is what I get; $ systemctl status cups cups.socket cups.path cups-browsed ● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-07-19 07:35:22 BST; 4h 3min ago Docs: man:cupsd(8) Main PID: 5121 (cupsd) CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service └─5121 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l Jul 19 07:35:22 abydos systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler. Jul 19 07:35:22 abydos systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler... ● cups.socket - CUPS Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-07-18 21:21:50 BST; 14h ago Listen: /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Stream) Jul 18 21:21:50 abydos systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. Jul 18 21:21:50 abydos systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler. ● cups.path - CUPS Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.path; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) ● cups-browsed.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) This is after running cupsd as root. My printer is an ethernet connected HP device. Once I've run cupsd, I can access cups from a browser. Also, printers show as ready and available whereas, if I don't run 'cupsd' software offers to print to "generic printer" or "print to file". # netstat -tulpan | grep cups tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1658/cupsd tcp6 0 0 :::631 :::* LISTEN 1658/cupsd -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" I'll be the rubbish you'll be the bin Love Song - The Damned
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