[Grml] FYI: Printing on remote CUPS server via lpr (package cupsys-bsd)

[Martin Yazdzik]

Thanks Robert - I have been wondering for weeks why adobe et al did not
print.

The FYI is genuinely appreciated.

Best,
m

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> while seeting up grml (HD-install) as my new working environmnet, I
> wanted to print on my CUPS printer server via cups-client from my grml
> running notebook:
> 
> Printing via "old" (BSD style) commands
> 
> lpr $somefile
> 
> always returns something like:
> 
> "jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." and no page was printing :(
> 
> Because "lpstat -o -p -d" shows all available printer queues, I was
> perplexed
> 
> After playing around a bit I noticed that
> 
> # aptitude show lpr
> Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "lpr"
> Package: lpr
> State: installed
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> is the problem. When printing via CUPS you need the wrapper package
> "cupsys-bsd" instead of "lpr" to be installed - otherwise all print jobs
> are handled by old BSD style lpr queue :/
> 
> This is _not_ really a grml bug, but maybe coexistent installing both of
> these packages should be thought over.
> 
> Maybe this report helps other folks with same troubles
> 
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