Need LPRng to CUPS advice

[Michael Sweet]

Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>     I have been using LPRng on my Red Hat 8 & 9 servers.
> I now have a new server that I am going to install
> White Box Enterprise Linux 3 (WBEL).  (It is like Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, only cheaper.)  And, WBEL uses CUPS
> instead of LPRng.
> 
>     I am somewhat afraid of CUPS, as I tried it several
> years ago and it was awful.  If Red Hat (and WBEL)
> have switched to it, I am presuming that it has
> gotten a lot better.
> 
>     The server will have two serial pin printers and
> one parallel laser printer attached to the local ports.
> It will also have up to 30 LPD style remote printers
> that the new server will need to spool for.
> 
>     This is what scares me.  The following two LPRnd
> commands in /etc/printcap do not seems to be supported
> in CUPS:
> 
>                 :mc#20:\         (Maximum copies)
>                 :send_try#50:\   (Maximun send tries)
> 
> Is there another way to achieve what these two commands
> do in CUPS?  Am I missing something here?  Is CUPS not
> designed for server duties?

MaxCopies is a global configuration parameter in cupsd.conf.

There is no directive that corresponds to send_try.

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