Cups problem

[Kevin J. Cummings]

david walcroft wrote:
> david walcroft wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:18 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>  
>>>> [root at reddwarf ~]# ps aux -columns 256 |grep cupsd
>>>> ERROR: Unknown user-defined format specifier "lumns".
>>>>     
>>>
>>> You should have had a double-dash in front of "columns".
>>>  
>>> i.e. ps aux --columns 256 |grep cupsd
>>>
>>>   
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo ps aux --columns 256 |grep cupsd
>> david    17568  0.0  0.0   4044   676 pts/1    S+   15:49   0:00 grep
>> cupsd
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>
>> It seems that cupsd is running.

See my previous response.

>>    david
>>
> I still cannot connect to localhost:631 and "system-config-printer" says

In order to connect to localhost:631, cupsd has to be running.  You have
not proved that yours is.  In fact, you have proved that yours is not.

system-config-printer is in a package by itself.  What does "rpm -q
system-config-printer" tell you?

> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo system-config-printer
> sudo: system-config-printer: command not found
> [david at reddwarf ~]$

Looks like you need to install system-config-printer

yum install system-config-printer

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