How to setup CUPS print queue for /dev/null?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Jan 28 22:17:53 PST 2010


Betz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to setup a print queue that will send print jobs to /dev/null
> in a test environment. The server is running Linux Fedora Core release 4
> (Stentz). I executed the following lpadmin command to create the "print"
> queue.
> 
> lpadmin -p nowhere -E -v file:/dev/null
> 
> When I attempt to print to the queue I see the error message:
>  who |lp -d nowhere
> lp: unable to print file: client-error-not-found
> 
> What else do I need to do? Do I need to create a some sort of backend? I'm
> not sure what the backend filter would need to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> Betz

Did you set

FileDevice yes

in oyur cupsd.conf?

Helge





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