Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:22:18 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS Message-ID: <20030521032218.GA7362@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <20030521103242.30d0784d.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <20030521103242.30d0784d.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:32:42AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > In order to avoid the trauma of manually setting up a printer by > editing /etc/printcap, I thought I would use CUPS. I noticed that it > does exist in the ports collection, so I went ahead and installed > it. However, I'm not really sure how to start it. In Linux, the usual > way to run the CUPS configuration utility is to open Mozilla and type > the url "http://localhost:631/", but when I try that in FBSD, Mozilla > complains: > > "The connection was refused when attempting to contact > localhost:631" > > The handbook doesn't say anything about CUPS, nor is it mentioned in > my dead-tree reference "FreeBSD Unleashed." I assume that maybe CUPS > is a recent port to FBSD? I welcome any suggestions on how to make it > work. There should be a file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d called 'cups.sh.sample'. If you want cups to start with every boot (most likely) copy that file to 'cups.sh'. Make sure you are not running the base system lpd. Check your '/etc/rc.conf' file and make sure there is no "lpd_enable=yes" line present. To start cups without rebooting, enter: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start Hope that helps. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
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