[cups] [UNKN] STR #4320: Strange problem with CUPS on a Linux (CentOS 5.10) LAN
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Jan 22 05:34:41 PST 2014
At Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:56:12 -0500 Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> You can also setup raw queues on the client, or if you have a single server
> >
> > How are raw queues setup?
>
> Just set up queues with no PPDs; if you have already created a queue you can revert it to a raw queue with:
>
> lpadmin -p printer -m raw
I expect that lpadmin will fail, since the /etc/ directory is on a read-only
file system -- I *cannot* use the 'normal' admin utilities it all *has* to be
done using a text editor... CUPS pretty much sucks for this sort of
situation, esp. since the documentation does not really document how to admin
things that way.
Next question:
With a local printers.conf, I am now seeing two copies of the queues (the
'local' printers.conf version and the version picked up via network). How do
I prevent this duplication.
Also, we have been getting errors relating to probably with file format
strangeness (nonsense about bad stream type, application/octect). I'm
*guessing* because of the fact that I have queues to the server's ipp address,
but with PPD file at the same time.
At this point we have decided it is some sort of hardware problem and I am
going to swap the machine out, even though the machine is working just fine
otherwise. We shall see if this works or not. Next we will swap the network
cable.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>
>
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