Cups problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:12 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 09:18 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >   
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>     
> >>>>>>>       
> >>>>>>>           
> >>>>>>>               
> >>>>>> 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"
> >>>>
> >>>>     david
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> It seems to me there are only two possibilities:
> >>> 1. cupsd is not running. What does : ps aux -columns 256 |grep cupsd
> >>> return/
> >>> 2. Your /etc/hosts file does not define a localhost. Use the ip number
> >>> of ypur machine rather than localhost.
> >>> --
> >>> =======================================================================
> >>> Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
> >>> =======================================================================
> >>> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> [root at reddwarf ~]# ps aux -columns 256 |grep cupsd
> >>     
> > I am not doing well with things like spellins and such.
> > It is --columns
> >   
> >> Could you give me an example of the /etc/hosts/ file please
> >>     
> > hosts file:
> > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> > # that require network functionality will fail.
> > 127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost
> > 192.168.1.100		vulcan vulcan.gateway.2wire.net
> > 192.168.1.101		saturn saturn.gateway.2wire.net
> > 192.168.1.65		cyrus cyrus.gateway.2wire.net

> Would this be correct: 192.168.0.1     reddwarf localhost.localdomain
----
no - should be more like (note the first 2 lines)...

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.1     reddwarf localhost.localdomain

Craig