On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> All my printers are networked via ethernet. I have an ancient desktop Laserjet
> 4 Plus whose IP address is 192.168.0.15. I can ping it fine. But I can't seem
> to send a print job to it.
>
> First, I migrated all my printer setups from my old Ubuntu hard disk. I did
> this by copying /etc/init.d/cups/cups.conf and the entire contents of the ppd
> folder. I also restarted the computer. The printers appear in the Printer
> configuration window. I can send a test page to it from any of the three
> drivers that I have installed, and the test page appears in the print queue.
> However, in the print queue it is listed as pending.
>
> The printer is enabled, accepting jobs. I can't find anything wrong in the GUI
> for the driver properties. However, looking at top the cupsd service is not
> running. I thought you started and stopped CUPS with
>
> /etc/init.d/cups/ ./cups stop/start

Huh?

> But that does not work, and there doesn't seem to be any executable files in
> the folder anyway. I know in top when it is running it is listed as cupsd, but
> that doesn't work either.
>
> I have also restarted the computer, but the cupsd service is still not 
> running.
> I think it is supposed to start automatically whenever an app sends a print 
> job
> to a printer, but I'm not sure about that.
>
> I really need to get my printers working ASAP.

/etc/init.d/cups start

or (a bit of a Red Hat-ism):

service cups start

-- 
Dan Young
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