several instances of cups ...

[Kurt Pfeifle]

max server wrote:
> several instances of cups ...
> I wanted to solve this over the port attribute in the cupsd.config!
> is this the correct solution?
> When this is correct, how I can print on an cups instance of my choice?
> I have it tried with: lp -h hostname:port filename
> 
> Which means port? Is this the cups port or ...
> 
> Is there another solution to address different instancen of cups?

Assuming you have 2 additional instances of CUPS running on a server,
bound to TCP ports 1631 and 2631. You can connect the commandline clients
to it by using

  IPP_PORT=2631  lp -h hostname -d printername filename

or

  IPP_PORT=2631 CUPS_SERVER=hostname lp -d printername filename

or

  IPP_PORT=2631 lp -d printername filename  (#for localhost no need
                                             to specify hostname)

or

  IPP_PORT=1631 lpstat -o
  IPP_PORT=1631 lpstat -v
  IPP_PORT=1631 lpsadmin -h hostname -p newprinter -v socket://ip-addr

If you want to connect via the Unix domain socket on localhost, use

  CUPS_SERVER=/path/to/sockfile lp -d printername jobfile



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