On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:17:03AM -0600, James Jones wrote: > I've upgraded from RH9 to FC1 on my wife's computer, and now find that I > can't print. Looking around shows that /usr/bin/lpr is a symbolic link > to /etc/alternatives/print ... but that's a broken link to > /usr/bin/lpr.LPRng. In /usr/bin, the files lp, lpq, lpr, lprm, and > lpstat have analogous problems. > > I would guess that I should symlink them to the matching *.cups files in > /usr/bin (printconf-gui also expects lpr to be available, BTW), but OTOH > attempting to run lpr.cups gives a "scheduler not responding" error. Is > my guess correct, and why isn't the print queue getting started when I > first bring the machine up as it was before the upgrade? (Looking in the > log files didn't turn up any error message that looked related to printing.) > > James Jones That is one of the problems with upgrading. LPRng is not functioniong at all in FC1. All printing is done by CUPS. lpr, lprm , etc. are CUPS related commands now. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
