I use a short shell script [see bottom] that produces a nicely
formatted GNU-style ChangeLog every day (using cvs2cl.pl and cron). I
would like to add a print command to the script that cron invokes so
that the new ChangeLog report is sitting at my printer when I arrive in
the office.
I seem to have a problem in my /etc/printcap file that is preventing
lpd from running.
My question is How do I edit my /etc/printcap file, or the
/etc/cups/printers.conf file so that lpd can run successfully?
The details
I use CUPS and KPrinter for my usual printing, but believe that I need
to use lpr to print from a shell script. So, I tried lpr. Here is
what happened:
lpr /web/dev.buzgate.org/ChangeLog
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged
(>1023) ports
I checked to see if lpd was running
ps -aux |grep lpd
and it was not
I looked at my rc scripts to verify that it gets started at boot time
ll /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
[snip]
S60lpd -> ../init.d/lpd
[snip]
which it does, but obviously it was not currently running. So I tried
starting it manually
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd start
Starting lpd: Warning - spideyPrinter: 'no :rm, :lp, or :sv entry'
Warning - spideyPrinter: Bad printcap entry - missing 'sd' or 'client'
entry?
Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port '515'
[FAILED]
So I looked at my printcap file
cat /etc/printcap
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
spideyPrinter:
Here are the details of my printer setup from CUPS
cat /etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.17
# Written by cupsd on Thu 18 Dec 2003 03:28:43 PM GMT
Info hp DeskJet 5550
Location Greg's Desk
DeviceURI usb://hp/deskjet%205550?serial=MY29P1N4G32L
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
While this command
cat /etc/cups/cupsd.conf|grep -v ^#|grep [:alnum:]
reveals the essential parts of my cups daemon
configuration
ServerName spidey.buzgate.org
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Classification none
DefaultCharset UTF-8
DefaultLanguage en
Printcap /etc/printcap
PrintcapFormat BSD
RemoteRoot remroot
SystemGroup sys
ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt
ServerKey /etc/cups/ssl/server.key
Encryption IfRequested
Satisfy All
Order deny,allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Encryption IfRequested
Satisfy All
Order deny,allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
HostnameLookups Off
KeepAlive On
KeepAliveTimeout 60
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestSize 0m
Timeout 300
Listen *:631
AccessLog /var/log/cups/access_log
ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log
PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log
MaxLogSize 1m
LogLevel info
PreserveJobHistory On
PreserveJobFiles Off
AutoPurgeJobs No
MaxJobs 0
MaxJobsPerPrinter 0
MaxJobsPerUser 0
User lp
Group sys
RIPCache 8m
FilterLimit 0
DataDir /usr/share/cups
DocumentRoot /usr/share/cups/doc
RequestRoot /var/spool/cups
ServerBin /usr/lib/cups
ServerRoot /etc/cups
TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp
Browsing On
BrowseProtocols CUPS
BrowseInterval 30
BrowseTimeout 300
BrowseAllow 192.168.1
BrowseOrder allow,deny
ImplicitClasses On
ImplicitAnyClasses Off
HideImplicitMembers Yes
BrowseShortNames Yes
btw, if you're interested in the short shell script that uses cvs2cl.pl
to generate a daily ChangeLog, here it is
cat createChangeLog.sh
#!/bin/bash
# change to my local cvs repository
cd /home/greg/public_html/dev.buzgate.org
# update this repository from the CVS main repository
cvs -q update -dP
# establish some dates to use in creating messages and ChangeLog
yesterday=`date -d "1 day ago 00:00" -R`
today=`date -d "00:00" -R`
cvsdate=-d\'${yesterday}\<${today}\'
nicedate=`date -d yesterday +"%d %b %Y %Z (%z)"`
filedate=`date -d yesterday +"%Y-%m-%d"`
# run the cvs2cl script, producing the ChangeLog file
/home/greg/public_html/dev.buzgate.org/cgi-bin/cvs2cl.pl -f
/home/greg/public_html/dev.buzgate.org/public_html/ChangeLog -l
"${cvsdate}"
# move yesterday's ChangeLog out of the way on the webserver
mv /web/dev.buzgate.org/public_html/ChangeLog
"/web/dev.buzgate.org/public_html/ChangeLog${filedate}"
# copy the ChangeLog over to the webserver so people can see it
cp /home/greg/public_html/dev.buzgate.org/public_html/ChangeLog
/web/dev.buzgate.org/public_html/ChangeLog
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