My Backend does not display when i runlpinfo -v

Patrice toussaint15 at yahoo.fr
Wed Jul 27 00:37:42 PDT 2011


>
> Hello,
>
> On Jul 23 06:14 Patrice wrote (excerpt):
> > 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.
>
> Have a look at
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS
> for examples.
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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>

Hello Johannes

Thanks for the link above. The example I am using is from the link above but I still can't get it to work. Is there something I should do when installing the the backend in the directory? I suppose the above example should also work under Ubuntu 10.10

Regards
Patrice




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