Cups problem
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Dec 14 06:22:03 UTC 2007
david walcroft wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:18 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>
>>> [root at reddwarf ~]# ps aux -columns 256 |grep cupsd
>>> ERROR: Unknown user-defined format specifier "lumns".
>>>
>>
>> You should have had a double-dash in front of "columns".
>>
>> i.e. ps aux --columns 256 |grep cupsd
>>
>>
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo ps aux --columns 256 |grep cupsd
> david 17568 0.0 0.0 4044 676 pts/1 S+ 15:49 0:00 grep cupsd
> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>
> It seems that cupsd is running.
Uh, no! The only process found was the process running the grep. Take
a closer look. If cupsd was running, the grep would have printed 2
lines, like:
> root 1364 0.0 0.0 3892 660 pts/2 S+ 01:14 0:00 grep cupsd
> root 3308 0.0 0.1 9764 2540 ? Ss Dec11 0:18 cupsd
What does "chkconfig --list cups" tell you?
mine shows:
> cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
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Kevin J. Cummings
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