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

Daniel Spannbauer ds at marco.de
Tue Feb 10 23:05:51 PST 2009



Michael R Sweet schrieb:
> 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...)

Hmmm, I'm not very firm in syslog-ng so I don't now what to change in 
syslog-ng.conf.

Regards

Daniel




> 

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