On 9/30/2014 2:01 AM, Hazel Russman wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:49:45 -0400
Alan Feuerbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
Howdy,
I've successfully installed Gutenprint via the BLFS book systemd
instructions. The last thing it has you do is restart cups:
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart"
But this file does not exist.
...
Next I tried to print a test file: "lpr testfile" and "lp testfile". I
got responses like this:
"lpr: Error - no default destination available."
I'm probably missing something simple, but I can't find my problem.
Unfortunately I have almost no knowledge of system administration type
stuff on linux.
You're on systemd so you need a systemd service unit, not an initscript. They
are quite easy to write.
Here's the one I use:
[Unit]
Description=CUPS printing daemon
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Put it in /etc/systemd/system/cups.service. Then as root run systemctl start
cups.service . To start it on booting, use systemctl enable cups.service.
Thanks! I did all that, rebooted the system and tried both "lp" and
"lpr" again. I got the same error message with both.
Should I be using lp or lpr? Or is there another command? I can't find
anything about that in the Cups or Gutenprint BLFS systemd pages. And
it's been a very long time since I used those commands in the Unix/Linux
systems at work, so I don't remember the difference between them, and
the man pages are not helpful to me. Mostly there are graphical printing
tools that are used instead.
Alan
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