how to install a printer in FC4 CLI only

[Marc M]

Ok, thanks Tim, I thought they had moved it or something. I deleted my
printer info and saved/exited, and recreated it as well as the queue.

Then I got

There was a problem sending CUPS test page
to 'printer1' queue:

lpr: error - unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable

So I went into services and started and stopped CUPS. Now it prints ok. I am
just wondering if my selinux had the service disabled. I am running only
targeted policy and have it set to warn only, not block everything, so I may
be offbase in my reasoning but I thought I would throw it open to the court.
Has anyone else run into any other problems with this and is is specific to
Fedora Core 4?

Also one more question - I noticed it gave me the ! symbol and warning when
adding a service in the gui ('services')? It didn't let me add what I tried
(lpr) and I am curious about that. I know CUPS more or less replaced line
printing but I would've thought that the daemon would still be around if we
wanted it. Comments welcome.


Thanks
Marc







On 10/2/05, Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu> wrote:
>
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>
> >I had to ssh into my headless box and set up printing with links, so I
> >suspect that is the case.
> >
> >
> I'm actually interested in an answer to the original question for a
> slightly different reason. I have a setup to automatically configure
> more or less identical workstations here, namely by installing FC4
> followed by running a shell script via something like
>
> links -source http://myhost/prepare.sh | sh
>
> per the "Automating Unix and Linux System Adminstration" book. However,
> I have been unable to figure out how to do a non-interactive
> command-line setup of a CUPS printer. Any ideas?
>
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