can't print with lpr

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:00:21 +0000, Anonymous wrote:
>>
>>> Answering my message 5 minutes later.
>>>
>> did you get something to work?  i hope so.  it was good to see another
>> rant.  i've had an annoying problem for 6 months using CUPS, and i've just
>> recently found a workaround.  i love CUPS when it works, but it can really
>> give you headaches when it doesn't!
>>
>> if you didn't get your problem working, something i found to work early in
>> my quest was to completely remove the lprng package and scripts.  i had
>> some errors early on when CUPS and lprng were fighting over the printer,
>> resulting in nothing being printed and lots of error logs.
>>
>> if you've already gotten it working, what did the trick?  just curious.
>>
>> take care!
>>
>> nathan
>>
> 
> If one must remove lprng package, as I read somewhere else as well,
> what happens when some of the many installed programs try to print
> using lpr ? Does it pass thru cleanly (?!) to CUPS ??

CUPS provides its own lpr command...

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