[cups] lpadmin in a startup script

[Louis Garcia]

I think rc.local is the last script run at boot. I did not want to mess
with a systemd service for something so minimal, but I'll take a look.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:23 PM Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Louis,
>
> cupsd might not yet be started...  Generally speaking, you need to make
> sure that your startup script is run after the other system services are
> started.  Fedora uses systemd so you'll probably want to setup something
> with systemd to run your script after starting cupsd...
>
>
> > On Sep 9, 2018, at 8:05 PM, Louis Garcia <louisgtwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to add a printer at system startup if one is not present.
> This
> > is on fedora
> >
> > I created /etc/rc.d/rc.local and made the file executable
> >
> > if [ ! -f "/etc/cups/ppd/Officejet-6700.ppd" ]; then
> >  /sbin/lpadmin -p Officejet-6700 -o printer-is-shared=false -L "Office"
> -E
> > -v hp:/net/Officejet_6700?ip=172.16.0.2 -m
> > lsb/usr/HP/hp-officejet_6700.ppd.gz -d Officejet-6700
> >  touch /root/createdprinter.txt
> > else
> >  touch /root/printerexists.txt
> > fi
> >
> > After boot I get the file /root/createdprinter.txt but no printer was
> > created. if the printer exists before I reboot I get
> > /root/printerexists.txt so I know the startup script runs properly. I run
> > the exact lpadmin command as the script in root terminal and works fine.
> >
> > Why does that command not want to work in a startup script?  Is the boot
> > environment different?
> >
> > --Thanks
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