How to check if i have active printing system (such as LPD)?

gabytf · 06-22-2012, 03:24 AM

Trying to install a Xerox Phaser 3120 to my Slackware 13.37, one of the conditions required is active printing system need to be active, but i don't know how to check it? Please guide me. Thank you.

Didier Spaier · 06-22-2012, 03:28 AM

To have printing system (aka CUPS in Slackware 13.37) active do this:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start

Please note that at next boot CUPS will start automatically.

Then type:

Code:

localhost:631

in the address bar of your preferred browser and go to "Administration" to set up your printer.

Babertje · 06-22-2012, 01:44 PM

Just to check if cups/printer is active

Code:

ls /var/run/cups/cups.sock |grep -c sock

returns "1" on active duty

sundialsvcs · 06-22-2012, 09:16 PM

Yeah, I think that you definitely want to be working with Cups, not lpd. When you're looking at "printing systems," Cups really did achieve its intended goal. (Behind the scenes, it is the printing subsystem of OS/X.)