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 <haines@???> 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
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