Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:13:34 +0800 From: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS Message-ID: <20040417171334.07b6e023.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A2E2@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <407EAD79.30506@daleco.biz> <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A2E2@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:51:30 -0700 "Derrick Ryalls" <freebsd@fbsdsolutions.com> wrote: > http://www.freebsddiary.org/cups.php > > I no longer use CUPS myself, but when I had it setup, I had to make sure the > system lp* files where chmod'ed to -x so that the CUPS version would be used > instead. The above link suggests moving /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in > your path, but that just doesn't give me warm fuzzy feelings. Thanks for this suggestion, and thanks to the others who wrote back. Unfortunately, I still can't get any output from the printer, but a few interesting things have turned up. First off, I discovered that installing CUPS doesn't create /var/log/cups - you have to make that directory manually. OK, I did that, and now I have an error_log file, which has a few interesting lines of output: I [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Adding start banner page "none" to job 5. I [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Adding end banner page "none" to job 5. I [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Job 5 queued on 'Epson' by ''. E [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 5! I [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? I [16/Apr/2004:15:55:35 +0800] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug". I [16/Apr/2004:17:24:11 +0800] Listening to 0:631 I [16/Apr/2004:17:24:11 +0800] Loaded configuration file "/usr/local/etc/cups/cu : I'm interested in the line that says: "Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?" Well, I do have Ghostscript-gnu installed, which should be crucial (it has all gimp-print, which has all the printer drivers). I also installed cups-base and cups-lpr - I can't see anything else that needs to be installed. Everything looks like it should work, and netstat seems to agree that port 631 is ready and waiting: bob@sonic:~> netstat -an | more Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) tcp4 0 0 *.631 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.22 *.* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 *.22 *.* LISTEN The one thing I see that has me confused - ifconfig now reports the existence of a plip0 device - is that correct? Could that be causing a conflict? After all, the printer is connected on my parallel port: bob@sonic:~> ifconfig vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::20c:6eff:fe0a:ca02%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0c:6e:0a:ca:02 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 All comments are welcome. best regards, Robert
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