Cups problem

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Dec 13 01:04:42 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service cups status
>> cups: unrecognized service
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log
>> tail: cannot open `/var/log/cups/error.log' for reading: No such file or 
>> directory
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>
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> 
> OK, you need to register and then start cups...
> 
> /sbin/chkconfig cups on
> /sbin/service cups start
> 
It looks like the OP is missing something. Even if cups is not
enabled with chkconfig, the service command should still work. It
looks like /etc/init.d/cups script is missing. (I have never checked
to see what happens if the <service> script is there, but not
executable.)

Mikkel
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  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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