On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:02, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:42:04PM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: [snip] > > So, I tried switching back to LPD, again using the Printer Switcher > > utility and restarting the appropriate daemon, stopping the other. Still > > no dice. > > There is an extra thing you need to do. The steps you need (it seems) > are: > > redhat-switch-printer > service cups stop > chkconfig cups-lpd off > service xinetd reload > rm /etc/printcap > service lpd start
Sounds like redhat-switch-printer needs some additional work. When I switched from LPRng to cups, it removed all of the autostarting entries for lpd and added them for cups in runlevel 3, 4, and 5. Furthermore, I left /etc/printcap and cups did not seem to care. Gene
