[cups.general] How to debug cups-lpd?

[Michael R Sweet]

Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> 
> Michael Sweet schrieb:
>> Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> we have in our System some old machines who are printing over a 
>>> self-compiled old lpd.
>>> Now, we want migrate to cups, but the cups-lpd is not printing jobs from 
>>> our old System.
>>> According to a tcpdump there is siome input over Port 515, but there is 
>>> no output in error_log.
>>>
>>> Can I start cups-lpd in a way that I'm able to see what cups-lpd is 
>>> doing or whats wrong?
>> cups-lpd logs via syslog, so its messages should show up in the normal
>> syslog file(s)...
>>
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> thats right, but the log-level is very poor. Ca I increase it?

Depending on the OS, you may be able to configure syslogd to log
debugging messages produced by cups-lpd (although it does not log as
verbosely as, say, cupsd in debug mode...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer