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

[Daniel Spannbauer]

Daniel Spannbauer schrieb:
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> 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.

Can I do a strace about cups-lpd when it is starting of xinetd? And, 
wehen yes: how?

Regards

Daniel




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