Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:09:08 +0200
From:      Carl-Johan Kihlbom <div@newcode.se>
To:        Michael Collette <metrol@metrol.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Printing with CUPS
Message-ID:  <96A70EB0-D536-11D6-9E06-00039363CBAA@newcode.se>
In-Reply-To: <200210010455.09074.metrol@metrol.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On tisdag, okt 1, 2002, at 13:55 Europe/Stockholm, Michael Collette 
wrote:

> Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to get my FreeBSD computer to act as a print server. I'm 
>> not
>> having much success though.
>>
>> I'm running 4.6.2-STABLE and I've installed cups-base-1.1.14 via
>> /stand/sysinstall. I started cupsd manually with 
>> /usr/local/sbin/cupsd,
>> and I can access the web interface at http://localhost:631/. There I
>> added my HP Deskjet 970 CXi connected via USB successfully, and was
>> able to print a test page from the web interface.
>>
>> However, I seem to be missing a lot of important files. I have almost
>> none of the lp* binaries in /usr/sbin/. I.e. no lpstat, lpinfo,
>> lpadmin, etc. All I have is:
>
> When you're looking in /usr/sbin, what you're seeing are the default 
> lpr tools
> that came with FreeBSD.  Cups is all in /usr/local/bin.
>
> The easiest way to correct your problem is to remove execute 
> permissions from
> the /usr/sbin files.
>
I have no lp* files in /usr/local/bin. So that's not it. Locate lpinfo 
returns nothing.

/ Carl-Johan


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?96A70EB0-D536-11D6-9E06-00039363CBAA>