Cups problem

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 19:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >> [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 ~]$
> >>
> <--------------[ snip ]------------->
> > 
> > OK, you need to register and then start cups...
> > 
> > /sbin/chkconfig cups on
> > /sbin/service cups start
> > 
> It looks like the OP is missing something. Even if cups is not
> enabled with chkconfig, the service command should still work. It
> looks like /etc/init.d/cups script is missing. (I have never checked
> to see what happens if the <service> script is there, but not
> executable.)
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good point - but you are not helping OP with useful things to do

David...what is output of ???

sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
sudo rpm -V cups
uname -a

Craig