Kickstart installations and printer pre-configuration in Fedora 13

[Peter Schwenk]

Thanks for the reply.

On Sep 5, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> 
> Peter Schwenk <schwenk at math.udel.edu> writes:
>> I was wondering if someone could describe the correct way of
>> preconfiguring network printer queues via a script.  I don't want my
>> users to have to set up their own printers.  Thanks in advance for
>> your help.
> 
> I'd like to know what the approved way is too.  Setting up cups seems
> like one of the grottier aspects of running a handful of identical
> Fedora systems on a network.
> 
> So far I've been hacking it via "scp -p" from a preconfigured and
> working system. I update:
> 
>  /etc/printcap
>  /etc/cups/*  (anything with a mod-time after I installed the system).

After I posted my question, I decided to try just copying over the /etc/cups directory of a correctly configured computer to another computer and restarting CUPS.  It seems to work fine.  All I need to do is run lpadmin to set the appropriate default printer for the machine.  I guess I just wasn't certain if there were any other files that play a role in printer configuration.  I didn't think of /etc/printcap.  I guess I'll throw that one in, too.

> 
> Hopefully someone will be disgusted enough with this answser to speak up
> and tell us the correct way. ;-)
> 
> -wolfgang
> -- 
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht      http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/      (IPv6-only)
> 


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