FreeBSD 6.1, CUPS 1.2.2

Nathan Whitehorn nathanw at uchicago.edu
Sun Nov 5 22:19:43 PST 2006


> I have configured CUPS on a FreeBSD 6.1 installation.  The configuration
> points to a Buffalo USB print server. The print server has one Deskjet 970Cxi attached to it.
> If as a user I execute:
>
>  lpr -P DJ970 zooPlot.ps
>
> The following is returned:
>
>  lpr: Unable to connect to /var/run/printer: No such file or directory
>  lpr: Check to see if the master 'lpd' process is running.

To make CUPS shadow the base LPR tools, you need to put CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes in /etc/make.conf and then rebuild the port.

> If as a user I execute:
>
>    /usr/local/bin/lpr -P DJ970 zooPlot.ps
>
> The following is returned:
>
>   /usr/local/bin/lpr: Not Implemented

This is quite odd -- specifying the full path should work. Check if the above fixes the problem.





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