[plug] printer won't restart

Tomasz Grzegurzko tomasz89 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 12:48:37 WST 2008


On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Hello Richard - long time no chat :-(
>
>  I think that Tomasz is referring to the CUPS GUI.   Point a web browser to
>  http://127.0.0.1:631 to view CUPS administration.   You should then be able
>  to delete the HP printer and start again.

I think RH had something like:
system-config-printers
(?)

>
>
>  >Secondly, when I do "# service cups status" to see if cupsd is running or
>  >not, I get 'bash: service: command not found"
>  >and I can't proceed from there.
>
>  Does http://127.0.0.1:631/admin/log/error_log show anything useful?
>  Or       ps -A | grep cups        just to make sure the cupsd service is
>  actually running :-)
>

But it may not even be cups based, it may be lpr, which is why this
gets complicated. I'd suggest first move to a new distro....


Tomasz



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