Cups problem
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 16 03:05:50 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 02:59 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> david walcroft wrote:
>
> >> It's amazing to me that this apparently endless thread
> >> seems to be entirely due to the fact that
> >> YOU DO NOT HAVE cupsd RUNNING.
> >>
> >> If you did, you would see the CUPS web-page
> >> if you gave entered http://localhost:631 in your browser.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > I do have cupsd running as shown previously.
>
> I haven't read the whole thread,
> but I haven't seen any evidence that cupsd is running on your machine.
>
> What is the output of "ps aux | grep cups" ?
>
> Also what is the result of "telnet localhost 631"?
> And "telnet 127.0.0.1 631"?
>
> > My present problem is getting it to accetp the root password
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.
> If cupsd is running then you should be able to browse to localhost:631
> without giving the superuser password.
>
> I strongly suspect your problem is much simpler than you think.
>
> I suppose you could possibly be running a firewall (eg shorewall)
> that prevents you accessing port 631?
----
Timothy...you're not helping
his packages are screwed up from a completely out of control yum.repos.d
folder
He needs to fix that, and then update his packages to obtain sanity.
Craig
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