[cups.general] FreeBSD lpr to CUPS ?

[Frank Bonnet]

On 09/07/2011 04:09 PM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Frank Bonnet wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I've installed a 1.5 CUPS server on a Linux box and
>> I'm trying to remotely print from a FreeBSD machine
>> using the BSD standard lpr command
>>
>> The client's printcap looks like the following
>>
>> d640|d640 remote printer:\
>>         :sh:\
>>         :lp=:rm=pdc:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/output/d640:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>>         :sh:sf:rp=d640:
>>
>> starting and enabeling the "d640" printer seems OK when using lpc
>> but the jobs stay stucked on the client machine with the following
>> message
>>
>> waiting for pdc to come up
>>
>> "pdc" is the cups server ...
>>
>> Is there someting to modify on the SERVER configuration so that it
>> accepts jobs from my BSD machine ???
>>
>> Thank you
>
> Did you configure and enable the cups-lpd daemon on your cups server
> machine?
>
> Helge
>
>

No I've installed 1.5 manually and I'm a bit new to cups
is it living in CUPS sources or do I have to install it
in addition of CUPS ?