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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:59:14 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        weif@weif.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <49ECA9E2.5060804@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20090420162909.84CB0A3D2E@maxine.cjones.org>
References:  <20090420145839.5D396A3DC7@maxine.cjones.org>	<49EC98FA.8010404@otenet.gr> <20090420162909.84CB0A3D2E@maxine.cjones.org>

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Keith Seyffarth wrote:
> <snip>
>
>   
>> Follow the instructions here:
>>
>> http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:printing
>>     
>
> I'm currently four days of troubleshooting after having done all
> that's listed on that wiki entry (though I didn't find that page until
> yesterday), and still trying to get close. That would be one of the
> pages I obliquely referred to as assuming that printing was
> possible...
>
>   

When I read that the first time, I didn't have much idea of CUPS and
devfs rules. I could still make it work.

>> cupsd_enable="YES" should do the trick in rc.conf - nothing else
>> needed to start cups as a service.
>>     
>
> I'd have to disagree with this statement, based on experience. That
> line has been in rc.conf since Januray, and cupsd *never* starts on
> boot. I'd guess that there has to be something else done somewhere to
> get it to actually start.
>   

There must be some problem in your system - there is nothing else in my
rc.conf  about cups, and it does start at boot on my system.




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