Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:11 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin
rccups start would be the easiest as long as there are no problems with cups itself. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
G'Day Ken, Grateful to hear from you again. On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:14, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:11 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin
rccups start would be the easiest as long as there are no problems with cups itself. Sorry, I don't understand you. I don't recognise rccups (and neither does bash?) Another hint please, remember I'm a newbie. I set up cups so long ago that I've just been relying on it "being there". -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Regards, Colin
Colin Carter wrote:
G'Day Ken, Grateful to hear from you again. On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:14, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:11 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin
rccups start would be the easiest as long as there are no problems with cups itself.
Sorry, I don't understand you. I don't recognise rccups (and neither does bash?) Another hint please, remember I'm a newbie. I set up cups so long ago that I've just been relying on it "being there".
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Regards, Colin
/usr/sbin/rccups -> /etc/init.d/cups check you have those two, just thought may be you are trying rccups as a user, you need to be root as /usr/sbin is not in your PATH as user. # ps fax|grep cupsd 9669 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:20 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
G'Day Ken, Grateful to hear from you again. On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:14, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:11 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin
rccups start would be the easiest as long as there are no problems with cups itself. Sorry, I don't understand you. I don't recognise rccups (and neither does bash?) Another hint please, remember I'm a newbie. I set up cups so long ago that I've just been relying on it "being there". You have to run the command as the root user. You can do this by typing su - or sux - into the bash shell and then supply the root password. rccups is a shortcut for /etc/init.d/cups but can only be run by the root user.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Hi Ken and Sid, On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:49, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:20 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
G'Day Ken, Grateful to hear from you again.
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:14, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:11 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, I had CUPS installed, up and running. Suddenly I get the message that cups is NOT running, and that there are no printers. I checked: rpm -q cups and it is still there. How do I start it? Regards, Colin
rccups start would be the easiest as long as there are no problems with cups itself.
You have to run the command as the root user. You can do this by typing su - or sux - into the bash shell and then supply the root password. rccups is a shortcut for /etc/init.d/cups but can only be run by the root user.
Ken Schneider
Sorry, I've been asleep, then at work.. :-) I managed to run rccups start, and I also went into the print manager via the "start" menu and tried a restart. When I try to print the job joins the queue, but won't move to the printer. I copied the log file (below), but it doesn't mean anything to me. :-( I've been reading the docs but there is so much information on CUPS that I am becoming confused. I am not sure if this has confused the issue or not, but when I was setting up my IDSL I entered the name of my ISP (exetel) into a field where it requested "server", and since then the Konsole prompt for root has been exetel. I am wondering how I replace that, and how it might effect my system. Newbie is a bit scared to make changes. Oh, I just thought: maybe Yast is failing because of the same reason. ??? Regards, Colin I [04/May/2005:18:53:45 +1000] Full reload is required. I [04/May/2005:18:53:45 +1000] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 3592 PPDs... I [04/May/2005:18:53:45 +1000] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... I [04/May/2005:18:53:45 +1000] Full reload complete. I [04/May/2005:18:55:01 +1000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 41. I [04/May/2005:18:55:01 +1000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 41. I [04/May/2005:18:55:01 +1000] Job 41 queued on 'OfficejetColor' by 'colinc'. I [04/May/2005:18:55:48 +1000] Job 41 was cancelled by 'colinc'. E [04/May/2005:18:55:53 +1000] cancel_job: job id 41 is cancelled - can't cancel! I [04/May/2005:20:46:18 +1000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 42. I [04/May/2005:20:46:18 +1000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 42. I [04/May/2005:20:46:18 +1000] Job 42 queued on 'OfficejetColor' by 'colinc'. I [04/May/2005:20:51:17 +1000] Job 42 was cancelled by 'colinc'. I [04/May/2005:20:57:23 +1000] Scheduler shutting down normally. I [04/May/2005:20:58:41 +1000] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" I [04/May/2005:20:58:41 +1000] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [04/May/2005:20:58:41 +1000] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. I [04/May/2005:20:58:41 +1000] Full reload is required. I [04/May/2005:20:58:42 +1000] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 3592 PPDs... I [04/May/2005:20:58:47 +1000] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... I [04/May/2005:20:58:47 +1000] Full reload complete.
Colin Carter wrote:
Hi Ken and Sid, On Wednesday 04 May 2005 08:49, Ken Schneider wrote:
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Ken Schneider
Sorry, I've been asleep, then at work.. :-) I managed to run rccups start, and I also went into the print manager via the "start" menu and tried a restart. When I try to print the job joins the queue, but won't move to the printer. I copied the log file (below), but it doesn't mean anything to me. :-( I've been reading the docs but there is so much information on CUPS that I am becoming confused. I am not sure if this has confused the issue or not, but when I was setting up my IDSL I entered the name of my ISP (exetel) into a field where it requested "server", and since then the Konsole prompt for root has been exetel. I am wondering how I replace that, and how it might effect my system. Newbie is a bit scared to make changes. Oh, I just thought: maybe Yast is failing because of the same reason. ??? Regards, Colin
When I had problems with my separate firewall, I just setup the SuSE Firewall to get it's IP address via dhcp from my cablemodem, I didn't try the DSL setup, but from what I've just seen, DSL seems to include the firewall. The firewall setup under YaST is under "Security and Users". It seems you have inadvertently changed your hostname to exetel, you can change it back via YaST --> Network Devices --> Network Card Configuration. To the printing problem -- "lpstat -t" should give you the status of the printer subsystem, that would be helpful.
Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 6:20 pm, Colin Carter wrote:
rccups start would be the easiest as long as there are no problems with cups itself. Another way to restart CUPS is through the YaST RC editor. That way you can double check to see if the cups daemon is set up to run at run levels 2,3 and 5.
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