On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 06:51:39 +1100 Ralph Ronnquist <ralph.ronnqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:03:21 -0500 > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > 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 printers 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? > > Sorry, I was a bit short... > > That command, "lpadmin -d $queue", is documented as the one to be used > for telling CUPS and lpr (from cups-lpr) which printer to use as > default printer; the $queue bit is "the printer queue name" or "the > user's printer name" and e.g. not it's connection detail (unless they > happen to coincide). > > The resulting "conf" change seems to be the inclusion of the line > with "<DefaultPrinter $queue>" (where again $queue is the printer > queue name, which also is the file name for the ppd of the printer), > together with a subsequent "</DefaultPrinter>". That same XML > "object" appears in both /etc/cups/printers.conf and > /etc/cups/printers.conf.O, and that's about the limit of what I know > about those files. > > In my simpleton approach to printing, I usually use the GUI of > "system-config-printer" to administrate via its required combinations > of mousing and keyboarding, and in fact I print so seldom that I > hadn't even installed an lpr program before. So my short note merely > reflected what I just had learnt from the man pages while attempting > to print a small text file with lpr, and discovering that my > defaulted default printer "PDF" was not what I wanted as default. ... actually the "DefaultPrinter" object has a lot of more stuff in it, and is apparently just a rebadging of one of the pre-existing "<Printer $queue>" objects. Ralph. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
