[cups.general] print to fax with CUPS ?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Oct 18 05:08:44 PDT 2012


Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:

> I run Mageia 1 Linux, with CUPS 1.4.6
> 
> I have been looking into adding a "Print to fax" entry in my printing
> system, using fax and efax.
> 
> The man page for efax tells me how to create the virtual printer by adding
> a line in /etc/printcap.
> 
> But the first lines in printcap read:
>         # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
>         # /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
>         # will be lost.
> 
> How do I get around this, and configure the virtual printer in CUPS ? ?
>  
> TIA,
>  
> Ron, on the banks of the Paraguay River.

Try something like

lpadmin -p efax -L machine -D fax -E -v efax:/dev/ttyXX -m efax.ppd

Helge





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