Cups

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 13:56 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
> >> But are you using CUPS?
> >> If so, how did you configure it?
> >> In one of your earlier posts, you said you had no /etc/cups/printers.conf
> >> , and /etc/cups/cups.conf seemed more or less empty.
> 
> >     I have the latest updated cups loaded and /etc/cups/ which has this:
> > 
> > [root at k5di etc]# cd cups
> > [root at k5di cups]# ls
> > classes.conf        cupsd.conf.O  pdftops.conf      snmp.conf
> > classes.conf.O      interfaces    ppd               ssl
> > client.conf         lpoptions     printers.conf     subscriptions.conf
> > cupsd.conf          mime.convs    printers.conf.O
> > cupsd.conf.default  mime.types    pstoraster.convs
> > [root at k5di cups]#
> > 
> > And it is all working just fine.
> 
> But how did you configure CUPS?
> Just installing it won't tell CUPS what printer you are using.
> 
> Incidentally, I "yum update" my machines more or less daily,
> and never had any problem with printing,
> so there cannot have been a universal problem with udev.
> 
> You seem to assume that if something works or does not work
> on your system the same must be true on every system in the world.
As someone who opposed blaming udev I need to reply. It is true that
with the previous udev 113-8 no /dev/lp* files were formed.. With
udev-133-9 your get them. Which itself is strange on my machine without
a parallel port. 




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