On Monday 22 January 2001 10:17, you wrote:
> true - if you take a look at the original (repreduced below) the
> printer queue or indeed the existance of a valid file are an irrelevance;
> despite lpd running in the process table it doesn't seem to be
> doing anything
>
> What did you do to isolate CUPS ?
>
> cherrs, Kyle
>
> ================== original post ===================
>
>
> with regard to Mandrake 7.2 (with all recent .rpms installed)
>
> a simple command such as lpr -Ptext foo.txt
>
> yields the fault :
>
> lpr : unable to print to file : the requested resource is unavailable on
> the server
>>
> What did you do to isolate CUPS ?
You have to change the links in the /etc/alternatives directory.
You than have create a lpd friendly printcap file. I used linuxconf for that
as printtool is linked to some drakprint cups utility.
tim
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