[cups.development] My Backend does not display when i runlpinfo -v

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jul 27 00:37 Patrice wrote (excerpt):
>>> I wrote a simple socket Backend file for my own printing and store it
>>> in the directory /usr/lib/cups/backend/mysocket. The permission of the
>>> file is the same as others (-rwxr-xr-x) but when I run lpinfo -v to see
>>> all the available backends my backend does not display.
>>
>> Have a look at
>> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS
>> for examples.
>
> The example I am using is from the link above but I still can't get
> it to work. Is there something I should do when installing the
> the backend in the directory? I suppose the above example should
> also work under Ubuntu 10.10

The examples were tested and worked for me when I wrote the article and
right now I verified that the "optimistic backend for a network printer"
works on my openSUSE 11.3 system:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
root at host# lpinfo -v | grep mysocket
network mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100

root at host# lpadmin -p testy -v mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100 -E

root at host# lpstat -v testy
device for testy: mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't know about possible peculiarities or differences in Ubuntu.

Perhaps a re-start of the cupsd may help?

Perhaps /var/log/cups/error_log (with "LogLevel debug") may
show something of interest why it does not work?


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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