[cups] lpform failing, password not recognized

[Jörg Thümmler]

Hi,

strange it was commented out... mostly all server configs, apache e.g. 
must have an active "listen ..." line...

-- 
cu

jth

Am 30.08.23 um 21:54 schrieb Johnnie W Adams:
> I may have fixed this by uncommenting this line in cupsd.conf:
> 
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.*sock*
> 
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 1:58 PM Johnnie W Adams <jxadams at ualr.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>       lp -d<printqueue> <filename> fails thus: Same error, lp: Error - The
>> printer or class does not exist.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>       John A
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 1:05 AM Jörg Thümmler <
>> listen at vordruckleitverlag.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 26.06.23 um 19:26 schrieb Johnnie W Adams:
>>>> It's definitely CUPS.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 4:36 PM ProCom Solutions <doug at goprocom.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Are you able to test printing a test directly to the print queue using
>>> the
>>>>> O/S’ lp command to confirm that the print queue is working and take
>>> lpform
>>>>> out of the equation as a test?
>>>>>
>>>>> lp -dprintqueue filename
>>>>>
>>>>> If that works, you know it’s lpform…. If it doesn’t, you just ruled it
>>>>> out.. and can concentrate on cups alone…
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 11:10 AM <sawbona at xsmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2 Jun 2023 at 14:26, Jörg Thümmler wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> no matter what it does - I believe it sends its output to cups and
>>>>>>> AFAIK the problem lies here...
>>>>>> It would seem so but it's rather over my head.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only thing I was able to find when searching for 'lpform+cups'
>>>>>> was this, from just over 20 years ago:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/65
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was a general feature request which was not accepted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But asides from that, nothing else save references to packages
>>>>>> including that module.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The OP would have to look upstream for more information:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://ctan.org/pkg/lpform?lang=en
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://ctan.dcc.uchile.cl/macros/generic/lpform/lpform-doc.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Author: Marijn Waltman
>>>>>> E-mail: marijnwaltman AT hotmail DOT com
>>>>>> Date:   July 14, 2014
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> JHM
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>>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> --
>>>>>    Doug Ritchie
>>>>> ProCom Solutions, Inc.
>>>>> (Systems Integrator/VAR/Reseller)
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>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> just read over the whole thing... "one of my users" means a remote cups
>>> user on your machine or a user directly working on his own machine?
>>> If it's remote there may be network problems or access limitations...
>>>
>>> Another question: lpform as mentioned above is just LaTex command set,
>>> not a script for printing... you can build latex code for equations with
>>> it. Don't thing it is used as you wrote:
>>>
>>>          lpform lineprint2 -Pls139 outputfile.txt
>>>
>>> your lpform seems to be something else or at least some latex wrapper...
>>> what about Doug's
>>>
>>>           lp -dprintqueue filename
>>>
>>> does it print?
>>>
>>> If yes ... can you show the lpform script's code?
>>>
>>> --
>>> cu
>>>
>>> jth
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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