On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 02:59 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > david walcroft wrote: > > >> It's amazing to me that this apparently endless thread > >> seems to be entirely due to the fact that > >> YOU DO NOT HAVE cupsd RUNNING. > >> > >> If you did, you would see the CUPS web-page > >> if you gave entered http://localhost:631 in your browser. > >> > >> > >> > > I do have cupsd running as shown previously. > > I haven't read the whole thread, > but I haven't seen any evidence that cupsd is running on your machine. > > What is the output of "ps aux | grep cups" ? > > Also what is the result of "telnet localhost 631"? > And "telnet 127.0.0.1 631"? > > > My present problem is getting it to accetp the root password > > I'm not sure what you mean. > If cupsd is running then you should be able to browse to localhost:631 > without giving the superuser password. > > I strongly suspect your problem is much simpler than you think. > > I suppose you could possibly be running a firewall (eg shorewall) > that prevents you accessing port 631? ---- Timothy...you're not helping his packages are screwed up from a completely out of control yum.repos.d folder He needs to fix that, and then update his packages to obtain sanity. Craig
