> We use LPRng instead of CUPS because of CUPS' chattyness. We have > literally > thousands of printers defined (over 7000) and the printcap defining these > printers is installed on over 100 servers. CUPS would overrun our network. > CUPS is a great design for a desktop client and one or two printers; it > really fails when you attempt to scale it up to an actual server level.
Chattyness is completely adjustable. It's a CUPS tuning and filtering question. Send me a copy of your config, and I can probably help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
