how to install a printer in FC4 CLI only

[Marc M]

Hi,

I have a new install of FC4 and I have printing problems. I am trying to
make sure I can print but I have no idea what CUPS has done to the printing
process. Also is printing a big problem for others with FC4? I haven't had a
lot of problems with prior releases.

I thought you would run redhat-config-printing and let it detect your
printer etc. I have no desktop tools or icons for printers so I will have to
set up and make it recognize the printer entirely CLI.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Marc

[Gilboa Davara]

Just execute system-config-printer-tui

Another option is to connect to the machine using a browser from a
remote machine:
http://machine_name:631/

Gilboa

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:50 -0400, Marc M wrote:
>  Hi, 
>  
>  I have a new install of FC4 and I have printing problems.  I am trying
>  to make sure I can print but I have no idea what CUPS has done to the
>  printing process.  Also is printing a big problem for others with FC4?
>  I haven't had a lot of problems with prior releases.  
>  
>  I thought you would run redhat-config-printing and let it detect your
>  printer etc.  I have no desktop tools or icons for printers so I will
>  have to set up and make it recognize the printer entirely CLI.  
>  
>  Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>  
>  Marc
>

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 18:01 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>  Just execute system-config-printer-tui
>  
>  Another option is to connect to the machine using a browser from a
>  remote machine:
>  http://machine_name:631/ 
I believe in fc4 cups by default only listens on localhost (as it
should)

I had to ssh into my headless box and set up printing with links, so I
suspect that is the case.

[Stephen Walton]

Michael A. Peters wrote:

> I had to ssh into my headless box and set up printing with links, so
> I
> suspect that is the case.
>   
>  
I'm actually interested in an answer to the original question for a 
slightly different reason.  I have a setup to automatically configure 
more or less identical workstations here, namely by installing FC4 
followed by running a shell script via something like

links -source http://myhost/prepare.sh | sh

per the "Automating Unix and Linux System Adminstration" book.  However, 
I have been unable to figure out how to do a non-interactive 
command-line setup of a CUPS printer.  Any ideas?

[Marc M]

Ok, thanks Tim, I thought they had moved it or something. I deleted my
printer info and saved/exited, and recreated it as well as the queue.

Then I got

There was a problem sending CUPS test page
to 'printer1' queue:

lpr: error - unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable

So I went into services and started and stopped CUPS. Now it prints ok. I am
just wondering if my selinux had the service disabled. I am running only
targeted policy and have it set to warn only, not block everything, so I may
be offbase in my reasoning but I thought I would throw it open to the court.
Has anyone else run into any other problems with this and is is specific to
Fedora Core 4?

Also one more question - I noticed it gave me the ! symbol and warning when
adding a service in the gui ('services')? It didn't let me add what I tried
(lpr) and I am curious about that. I know CUPS more or less replaced line
printing but I would've thought that the daemon would still be around if we
wanted it. Comments welcome.


Thanks
Marc







On 10/2/05, Stephen Walton <stephen.walton(a)csun.edu&gt; wrote:
>  Michael A. Peters wrote:
>
>  >I had to ssh into my headless box and set up printing with links, so I
>  >suspect that is the case.
>  >
>  >
>  I'm actually interested in an answer to the original question for a
>  slightly different reason. I have a setup to automatically configure
>  more or less identical workstations here, namely by installing FC4
>  followed by running a shell script via something like
>
>  links -source http://myhost/prepare.sh | sh
>
>  per the "Automating Unix and Linux System Adminstration" book. However,
>  I have been unable to figure out how to do a non-interactive
>  command-line setup of a CUPS printer. Any ideas?
>
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On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:49:08PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>  On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 18:01 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>  > Just execute system-config-printer-tui
>  > 
>  > Another option is to connect to the machine using a browser from a
>  > remote machine:
>  > http://machine_name:631/
>  
>  I believe in fc4 cups by default only listens on localhost (as it
>  should) 
That is true but it can be configured to listen wherever you want it
to listen in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. However this is not relevant unless
you are setting up a print-server. Is your headless box the
print-server. If so on any client you need to just fill in the server
name in the /etc/cups/client.conf file.
>  
>  I had to ssh into my headless box and set up printing with links, so I
>  suspect that is the case.
>  
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[Tim Waugh]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:50:06AM -0400, Marc M wrote:

>  I thought you would run redhat-config-printing and let it detect
> your
>  printer etc. I have no desktop tools or icons for printers [...] 
Choose Desktop->System Settings->Printing from the menu.

Tim.
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