Problems persist. I think I have the symbolic links right, but when I start
printtool it does not see my printer, when I try detect I get this error
"Could not find pconf_detect command-line utility
required for auto-detection. Make sure
that the gnulpr printfilters package is
properly installed."

Any suggestons?

TIA

Bruce

On Thursday 23 August 2001 09:22 am, Gregor Maier wrote:
> I'm not at home now so what I say may be not accurate
>
> Mdk uses symbolic links to ensure that cups and lpd both work with the same
> commands (lprm, lpr, lpq,....).
>
> this means  /usr/bin/lprm is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/lprm-cups or the
> /usr/bin/lprm-lpd.
>
> Make sure that these links point to the correct place (I'm not sure if the
> filenames are correct so you will have to check them...)
>
>
> If this doesn't help maybe you want to switch back to lpd. I never had
> problems with lpd and since I got trouble with cups I switched back before
> I got deeper into cups.
> To do this you'll have to:
> - uninstall all cups related packages
> - install the lpd related packages
> - download and installl printtool from RedHat - the mdk version no longer
> supports lpd.  Then you can run printtool and configure your printers as in
> Mdk 7.x
> - no comes the point where I'm not sure what I did.
> IIRC the lpd packages installes the /usr/bin/lp*-lpd files. No remove the
> /usr/bin/lpXX links and create new links to the lp*-lpd files
> cd /usr/bin
> ln -s lpr-lpd lpr
> .....
>
>
> You'll also must start the lpd when the system boots (activate in the
> services controll menu of the mdk configuration tool)
>
> Gregor
>
> On 23-Aug-2001 Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> > Gregor,
> >
> > Thanks for the tips, but I cant figure out how/what to symbolic link what
> > to what. Can you give me an idea?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >> I got similiar problems with cups so I switched back to lpd.
> >> I uninstalled the cups packages, installed the lpd packages then I
> >> downloaded printtool from RedHat (either hasn't Mdk got printtool
> >> anymore it just work with cups). Then I configured my printer with
> >> printtool just as I did in LM 7.1 and it worked fine.
> >> You should check the lpr, lprm, lpq commands IIRC they are symbolic
> >> links that need to be adjusted if you switch to lpd.
> >>
> >> Gregor
>
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 23-Aug-2001
> Time: 15:04:29
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