Cups problem

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:23 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:08 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >   
> >> david walcroft wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:11 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >>>>  
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I can restart cups by "service cups restart ( stopped)  (restart)"
> >>>>> But on Thuderbird and Firefox they both lock up after clicking
> >>>>> the print button,I cannot start localhost to get to  cups admin.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    Thanks  david
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Reversing what I have said before now you can get the equivalent of
> >>>> localhost:631 by running system-config-printer.
> >>>> or use lpoptions and lpadmin.
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> =======================================================================
> >>>> I'll burn my books. -- Christopher Marlowe
> >>>> =======================================================================
> >>>> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>         
> >>> Pardon my ignorance but I don't know how to use these commands.
> >>>
> >>>   david
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> I've done a "rpm -e --nodeps cups" then "yum install cups" and got to 
> >> the point where
> >> thunderbird and firefox send a print request to my HP PSC 2110 but is 
> >> not printed out.
> >> I still cannot open "localhost 631" 'Unable to connect'.
> >>     
> > ----
> > how about in firefox...
> >
> > http://localhost:631
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >   
> comes up with "Unable to connect"
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you are running firefox on the same computer that has the printer
attached to it right?

how about...

/sbin/service cups status

tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log

Craig