Subject: Re: cups and papd
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 01:28:31 EST
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Christian Tardif wrote:
> I've just installed the latest of netatalk (rpm distribution) on a brand
> new Mandrake 7.2 (kernel 2.4.0) with cups as default printing system.
> Everything seems to be working correctly (way better than previous
> releases), except for papd which keeps telling me that printer laserjet
> does not exist. Here is a part of the error log generated by lpr:
>
> Nov 22 22:04:20 firewall papd[25637]: No such printer: laserjet
> Nov 22 22:04:20 firewall papd[25637]: printcap problem: laserjet
>
> In fact, due to cups, the only thing that is in /etc/printcap is:
>
> laserjet:
>
> Is there anything that can be done to make papd working with cups ?
Use the option in papd.conf to pipe the output to a program instead of
letting papd mess in your spool directories (which it obviously can't do
in this case).
I'm not familiar with cups at all, but I assume it has some unix
command-line utilities for printing. Here is an example papd.conf for
standard lpd printing through a pipe:
laserjet:
:pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plaserjet:
Maybe this will help...
Andy
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