[cups.general] lpstat -v shows device as /dev/null

Steve Thompson smt at vgersoft.com
Tue Oct 7 15:58:03 PDT 2008


I have a mixture of cups-1.1.22 (CentOS 4.7) and cups-1.2.4 (CentOS 5.2); 
mix of i686 and x86_64. An lpstat -v on a CentOS 5 client system always 
shows /dev/null as the device for printers served from another CentOS 5 
box, as in:

 	device for <print-queue>: ///dev/null

while printers served from CentOS 4 show the proper device (ipp://...). 
The proper devices are displayed from a CentOS 4 client, whether the 
server is 4 or 5. I'm curious as to why this is; the print queues work 
fine, nonetheless.

Steve





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