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Setting default printer.
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| Jean-David Beyer 2007-12-03, 1:17 am |
| When I boot my RHEL 5 system and try to print on lpr (on my other
system connected by a LAN), it fails because default printer is
unknown.
I can easily use the
Start->System->Administration->Printing
tool and it then works fine. Unless I reboot, in which case I am
back were I started. I am willing to put something into
/etc/rc.d/init.d, or maybe /etc/cups, to make it fix this on boot,
but I do not know what to put in there.
What is the right way to do this? I do not boot very often, so
I always forget.
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| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> When I boot my RHEL 5 system and try to print on lpr (on my other
> system connected by a LAN), it fails because default printer is
> unknown.
>
> I can easily use the
>
> Start->System->Administration->Printing
>
> tool and it then works fine. Unless I reboot, in which case I am
> back were I started. I am willing to put something into
> /etc/rc.d/init.d, or maybe /etc/cups, to make it fix this on boot,
> but I do not know what to put in there.
>
> What is the right way to do this? I do not boot very often, so
> I always forget.
I too would like to know the "right way" to administer
cups printers. The relationship of printconf to the other
tools is very obscure to me. I use lpadmin to
import a foreign PPD file and printconf seems to tolerate
the new ppd.
Things that have worked for me:
http://localhost:631
and
lpadmin -d destination
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