<OT>Re: I'm now a convert to CUPS (was Re: Mixing LPRng and CUPS?)

[Aaron Grewell]

What gets me in trouble with my wife is my inability to program the
VCR/DVD/Satellite receiver.  Or indeed to remember which clicker goes
with which device.  She expects me to blow up the machines.  At one
point she asked me to "just pick one" so she would know which one to
expect broken. :)

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 10:23, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2002, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> 
> > Excellent.  I had the fun of installing CUPS 1.1.15 the other day, and
> > it was a real pain.  They removed some stuff from CUPS and stuck it into
> > their own version of GhostScript, so now instead of just making CUPS
> > work you have to make their GhostScript work as well.  Ick.  Once I got
> > it working, however, it is very cool.  Out of curiosity, what field did
> > you get your PhD in?
> 
> Computer science.  Which makes it much worse when my wife notices
> me having trouble on the computer.  Which I always do because I'm always
> trying new stuff.  :o)
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 18:35, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, I went back to my systems this morning after writing
> > > the email below, and began by reading the documentation.  After
> > > I thought I knew enough to understand at least the next step,
> > > I fired up the client machine, and much to my astonishment,
> > > I had printers visible and available all over the place.
> > > Perhaps CUPS on the client had needed a restart or something.
> > > I had to fool with only a couple of things to make the printing
> > > wonderful, it was raw as it stood, needed to be told the printer
> > > model and HPLJ 4M Postscript works just fine for me so far.
> > > 
> > > Happy days.  The improvement over LPRng is visible and
> > > I'm suddenly a convert.  The web administration thing needs
> > > work because it seems to leave me in dead-ends sometimes,
> > > but it's completely useable.
> > > 
> > > ++ kevin
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD  (805) 650-6274  mailto:kevin at kosmanor.com
> > > Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'Gorman.64 at Alum.Dartmouth.org
> > > Permanent e-mail forwarder  mailto:kogorman at umail.ucsb.edu
> > > Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I tried the web thingy, and got basically the same problems as 
> > > > described for the Control Center, presumably because the Control
> > > > Center is only fronting for the true culprit.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the hint about directing the listener.  I'll do that.
> > > > The odd thing is, as near as I can tell, nobody's listening on 631
> > > > as things stand.  That may be the real problem.  I'll start with the
> > > > obvious things: looking at the daemon.  I had thought port 515
> > > > was the real deal because of the line from a file in /etc/inet.d:
> > > >    printer stream  tcp     nowait lp       /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd 
> > > >      cups-lpd -o document-format=application/octet-stream
> > > > but that turns out to be cups-lpd, which is presumably what I will
> > > > be using for my LPRng clients.
> > > > 
> > > > Someone sent me a link to full CUPS documentation.  I'm going to
> > > > devote as much of today as it takes to making this work.  I'll give
> > > > the web admin thingy another try too.
> > > > 
> > > > This sort of thing sure makes me respect the effort that goes into
> > > > an easy-to-use interface, whenever I actually see one.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > ++ kevin
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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