Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
Andreas Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ? > What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated > as cups and has better features... apsfilter is in my experience a lot more difficult and confusing to configure, and I don't think I ever figured out how to do things like switch duplex on / off etc. CUPS has a web-based configuration interface which is very simple to use. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:42:44PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Disregard above, some crappy port has installed "cups" which apparently > > has its own "lpr" command, nice... > > Sorry, but *you* are the "crappy port". CUPS is intentionally split > into several ports so that the parts that other ports depend on > (cups-base) can be installed separately from the front-end (cups-lpr) > and the only port that depends on the front-end is the meta-port, > which itself has no dependents. > > You should consider this a golden opportunity to try out CUPS, which ^. > is much easier to set up than the base system's lpd, and has far > better support for modern printers (including the ability to configure > printer options such as resolution, quality, duplex etc.). q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ? What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated as cups and has better features... reply-to set ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "parse error" it sneaked in as a dependency of something else, I *newer* > installed cups here (and its also now *gone*)... check /usr/ports/INDEX, it *can't* have snuck in as a dependency. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
In a message written on Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:42:44PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Sorry, but *you* are the "crappy port". CUPS is intentionally split > into several ports so that the parts that other ports depend on > (cups-base) can be installed separately from the front-end (cups-lpr) > and the only port that depends on the front-end is the meta-port, > which itself has no dependents. One thing I notice is if you select "KDE" during the install you get enough cups to print, but none of the command line front ends. I've helped about 20 people with this "problem". I'm not sure if a better solution is to make the "KDE" master target include the command line utilities or to just make cups into one bit port. However, as it works now it doesn't make a lot of sense. You're installing a huge windowing system but you skimp on a few hundred k of command line utilities that people expect to exist. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
It seems Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Disregard above, some crappy port has installed "cups" which apparently > > has its own "lpr" command, nice... > > Sorry, but *you* are the "crappy port". CUPS is intentionally split > into several ports so that the parts that other ports depend on > (cups-base) can be installed separately from the front-end (cups-lpr) > and the only port that depends on the front-end is the meta-port, > which itself has no dependents. "parse error" it sneaked in as a dependency of something else, I *newer* installed cups here (and its also now *gone*)... > You should consider this a golden opportunity to try out CUPS, which > is much easier to set up than the base system's lpd, and has far > better support for modern printers (including the ability to configure > printer options such as resolution, quality, duplex etc.). No thanks, lpd does the job quite nicely, with close to *no setup* so it cant be much easier :) -Søren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Disregard above, some crappy port has installed "cups" which apparently > has its own "lpr" command, nice... Sorry, but *you* are the "crappy port". CUPS is intentionally split into several ports so that the parts that other ports depend on (cups-base) can be installed separately from the front-end (cups-lpr) and the only port that depends on the front-end is the meta-port, which itself has no dependents. You should consider this a golden opportunity to try out CUPS, which is much easier to set up than the base system's lpd, and has far better support for modern printers (including the ability to configure printer options such as resolution, quality, duplex etc.). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
It seems Soren Schmidt wrote: > > On a fresh current 23/11 1600CET : > > normal user cannot print anymore: > > >lpr > lpr: error - scheduler not responding! > > but as root things works as expected. > > Ideas ? or another item for the "bugs to fix" list ? Disregard above, some crappy port has installed "cups" which apparently has its own "lpr" command, nice... -Søren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ?
On a fresh current 23/11 1600CET : normal user cannot print anymore: >lpr lpr: error - scheduler not responding! but as root things works as expected. Ideas ? or another item for the "bugs to fix" list ? -Søren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
