Anno domini 2021 Tue, 16 Nov 08:03:21 -0500 Haines Brown scripsit: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:28:57PM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:21:15 -0500 > > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > These problems I'll pursue, but my pont is that none of the ways to > > > get access to the lpr command are workig. > > > > > > use: $ lpstat -d -v -p > > to list which the default printer is and which pringters there are > > $ lpstat -d -v -p > no system default destination > lpstat: Bad file descriptor > lpstat: Bad file descriptor > > > use: # lpadmin -d "$queue" > > to set $queue as the default for cups and lpr > > I'm unsure whether you are telling me now to set the queue for CUPS > or if I need to set it to "queue". > > I do # /etc/cups/diff -y cupsd.conf cupsd.conf.O | less . > I discover that is it cups.conf.<uppsercase o> not cups.conf<zero>. > So "O" means Original? > > My current cupsd.conf has line Port 631 vs. Listen localhost:631 > > My current location is > > <Location /> > # Allow shared printing... > Order allow,deny > Allow @LOCAL > </Location> > > the file cupsd.conf.O has > > <Location /> > # Restrict access to the server... > Order allow,deny > </Location> > > One thing I could is to backup /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and replace > it with cupsd.conf.O and reinstall the printer. Would you suggest > doing this? > > > (using cups-lpr) > > what does this mean? >
You need to install "cups-bsd", which has a cups version of "lpr". And you need to install "cups", as it "cupsd" is not running. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
