copy configurations

[Helge Blischke]

Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
>>Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Helge
>>>
>>>This files I know, but this files haven't the original filename from the ppd-files in the directory
>>>        /usr/share/cups/model
>>>But to install with the lpadmin I need the original-name of the files in the /usr/share/cups/model. So my question is how I find out this original filenames?
>>>
>>>Marc Ziegenhagen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>For all printers in the printers.conf file, the line
>>>>	<Printer name_of_this_printer>
>>>>you'll find a file
>>>>	/etc/cups/ppd/name_of_this_printer.ppd
>>>>
>>>>Helge
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Helge Blischke
>>>>Softwareentwicklung
>>>>
>>>>H.Blischke at acm.org
>>>>Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hello
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for your help. This was also my way what I want to do, but I have the problem to find out where I can get the original names of the ppd-files of defined printer queues on the old system. Because in the printer.conf is only the name of the copied pdd-file who is in the /etc/cups/pdd directory.
>>>>>Where can I find out the original name of those defined printers?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Marc Ziegenhagen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Apr 4 07:03 Marc Ziegenhagen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>We have the problem that we replace a server with a newer one
>>>>>>>and we want to copy all teh defined printers to the new server
>>>>>>>(there are about 90 queues). How we can export/import the
>>>>>>>cups-configurations or read the configurations on one server
>>>>>>>an rebuild them on the other server.
>>>>>>>The old-server runs with SuSE-Linux 8.1 and the new server with
>>>>>>>OpenSuSE 10.3. So there also too different cups versions in use.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Read
>>>>>>http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
>>>>>>in particular see
>>>>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>Do not edit the configuration files in /etc/cups/ manually
>>>>>>if suitable command-line tools are available for this purpose.
>>>>>>....
>>>>>>For example, to set up the same queues on several machines
>>>>>>(e.g., for a backup server), do not copy /etc/cups/printers.conf
>>>>>>and /etc/cups/ppd/*, but write the respective commands in a script
>>>>>>(usually a sequence of lpadmin commands) and run the script on
>>>>>>the various machines.
>>>>>>..
>>>>>>..
>>>>>>..
>>>>>>Up to SUSE LINUX 10.1 we provided CUPS 1.1 and since openSUSE 10.2
>>>>>>we provide CUPS 1.2 which is not fully backward compatible
>>>>>>with CUPS 1.1. Therefore in case of an update it is recommended
>>>>>>not to use an outdated cupsd.conf from a CUPS 1.1 installation
>>>>>>before but to start from scratch with the original cupsd.conf
>>>>>
>>>>>>from our CUPS 1.2 RPM.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Kind Regards
>>>>>>Johannes Meixner
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
>>>>>>AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>You do not need to reinstall these printers. All information
>>you need is contained in printers.conf and the said PPD files.
>>I suspect there is no way to regain the original PPD names
>>from the model directory.
>>
>>Helge
>>
>>--
>>Helge Blischke
>>Softwareentwicklung
>>
>>H.Blischke at acm.org
> 
> 
> Hello Helge
> 
> On my system in the moment I have a the following file in the /etc/cups/pdd directory:
> hplj4000.ppd
> hplj4000pan.ppd
> oki5300.ppd
> oki5300pan.ppd
> 
> But on the new system there has no such ppd-file, there exists only the original ones like HP/LaserJet_4000_Postscript.ppd.gz.
> So how can I generate on the new system this printers when I not can take the name of the original pdd file somewhere on the old system?
> 
> Marc Ziegenhagen

(1) shut down cupsd on both systems
(2) copy the above files to the /etc/cups/ppd directory on the new
     system
(3) copy the old system's printers.conf to the new system
(4) restart cupsd (at least on the new system).

Note: the /etc/cups/ppd/oki5300pan.ppd has just this name
because there is a printer named oki5300pan defined and
configured.

The result of setting up a printer via the lpadmin command or
the web interface is just the said PPD file (with all default settings
set up in this file) and the entry for this printer in printers.conf file.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org