Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> 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"
>>     
> ----
> 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
>
>   
[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service cups status
cups: unrecognized service
[david at reddwarf ~]$

[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log
tail: cannot open `/var/log/cups/error.log' for reading: No such file or 
directory
[david at reddwarf ~]$

My /var/log/messages

Dec 13 09:40:36 reddwarf kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device 
using ohci_hcd and address 4
Dec 13 09:40:36 reddwarf kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
choice
Dec 13 09:40:36 reddwarf kernel: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 
if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2811
Dec 13 09:40:56 reddwarf kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 4
Dec 13 09:40:56 reddwarf kernel: usblp0: removed
Dec 13 09:41:06 reddwarf kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device 
using ohci_hcd and address 5
Dec 13 09:41:06 reddwarf kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
choice
Dec 13 09:41:06 reddwarf kernel: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 
if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2811

     david