On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 19:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service cups status > >> cups: unrecognized service > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ > >> > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log > >> tail: cannot open `/var/log/cups/error.log' for reading: No such file or > >> directory > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ > >> > <--------------[ snip ]-------------> > > > > OK, you need to register and then start cups... > > > > /sbin/chkconfig cups on > > /sbin/service cups start > > > It looks like the OP is missing something. Even if cups is not > enabled with chkconfig, the service command should still work. It > looks like /etc/init.d/cups script is missing. (I have never checked > to see what happens if the <service> script is there, but not > executable.) ---- good point - but you are not helping OP with useful things to do David...what is output of ??? sudo rpm -qa|grep cups sudo rpm -V cups uname -a Craig
