Slack 10 CUPS problem , lpr

sethgeekx86 · 06-28-2004, 02:04 PM

I did i fresh install of slackware 10 the other day and am haveing printer probems. I went to cups vie firefox and added my printer and named it hp. I printed a test page and it worked great But lpr will not print anything.
Here is what happens , note seth is a one line txt file

Code:

bash-2.05b$ lpr -Php seth
Status Information, attempt 1 of 3:
sending job 'seth@athlon+284' to hp@localhost
 connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
 cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports
Waiting 10 seconds before retry

Can some one help me.

subekk0 · 06-28-2004, 02:22 PM

remove lprng and reinstall cups

sethgeekx86 · 06-28-2004, 02:31 PM

If i just have cups install , what command do i issue to print?

subekk0 · 06-28-2004, 02:34 PM

echo "test" | lp -dprintername

you will still have lpr capabilities but right now they are tied to the lprng program. if you remove lprng and reinstall cups you will have lpr capabilities that comes with cups and it will be tied to cups.

subekk0 · 06-28-2004, 02:37 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ght=cups+lprng

sethgeekx86 · 06-28-2004, 03:03 PM

Thanks for help
subekk0