My Backend does not display when i run lpinfo -v
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at acm.org
Sat Jul 23 09:02:15 PDT 2011
Patrice wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I wrote a simple socket Backend file for my own printing and store it in
> the directory /usr/lib/cups/backend/mysocket. The permission of the file
> is the same as others (-rwxr-xr-x) but when I run lpinfo -v to see all the
> available backends my backend does not display. I really don't know where
> I went wrong. Does anyone have any suggestion of why my socket doesn't
> display? I will appreciate any suggestion.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice
Wen called with no aruments, your backend must write a "device discovery
message" to stout. See the backend man page or respective documentation
pages at http://localhost:631 .
Helge
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