On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 05:35:05 +0700
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as cups goes, jbl has three packages. Install all of them. Do
> chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups, then ...rc.cups start. Use
> http://locahost:631 to setup your printer. You may need to
> /usr/bin/enable and /usr/bin/accept lp0(or whatever name you use).
> cups has some sort of an intercept that enables the lpx series of
> commands. Works through (x)inetd, but I haven't figured out how to
> make it work.
Bingo! That's why I'm having trouble... I killed inetd - that is it
doesn't get started during bootup because I wasn't running any services
that required it before this. I'll have to play around with this some
more...
> I just added aliases for lpx (lpr, lpq, lpstat, lprm)
> to lpr-cups ... For some reason, this doesn't work for anything kde
> or opera or sylpheed. For sylpheed, you can configure the command
> 'cat %s | lpr-cups' in the 'other' settings. I haven't found any way
> to make opera or kde work, so I have to print to file, then cat xxx |
> lpr to print stuff.
I can see me doing this but I sure couldn't see some of my users doing
it for some reason...
> Let me know if you try any of this and get further than I did.
Well, until I either free up some disk space or get another drive I'll
be trying this out on slackware first. (I thought I had some old drives
I could use but it tured out that all I had was some door stops ;-).
Thanks again for your input!
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Myles Green Calgary AB Canada
Alberta Step by Step Mirror:
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/
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