Problem installing cups

Sun Nov 20 08:54:43 PST 2005

Johannes Bretscher wrote:

> Hello,
> I'd like to use cups. I have downloaded and installed it AFAIKS without
> problems. Now I tried to configure cups but when I try to connect to the
> cups daemon with http it does not work. I get:
> 
> #v+
> hans at cthulhu:~> telnet localhost 631
> Trying ::1...
> telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
> 
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:37:29 GMT
> Server: CUPS/1.1
> Content-Language: de
> Upgrade: TLS/1.0,HTTP/1.1
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 151
> 
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>Not Found</H1>Die
> gewünschte Ressource wurde auf diesem Server nicht gefunden.
> </BODY></HTML> Connection closed by foreign host. hans at cthulhu:~>
> #v-
> 
> cupsd deleted my printcap file, so now I can not even print with the old
> spooler.
> 
> What can I do to solve this?
> 
> Greetings,
>   Johannes
Have you set up an password? Use the command lppasswd.
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Russbucket