Re: Kickstart installations and printer pre-configuration in Fedora 13

[Peter Schwenk <schwenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply.

On Sep 5, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

Peter Schwenk <schwenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I was wondering if someone could describe the correct way of

preconfiguring network printer queues via a script.  I don't want my

users to have to set up their own printers.  Thanks in advance for

your help.

I'd like to know what the approved way is too.  Setting up cups seems
like one of the grottier aspects of running a handful of identical
Fedora systems on a network.

So far I've been hacking it via "scp -p" from a preconfigured and
working system. I update:

 /etc/printcap
 /etc/cups/*  (anything with a mod-time after I installed the system).

After I posted my question, I decided to try just copying over the /etc/cups directory of a correctly configured computer to another computer and restarting CUPS.  It seems to work fine.  All I need to do is run lpadmin to set the appropriate default printer for the machine.  I guess I just wasn't certain if there were any other files that play a role in printer configuration.  I didn't think of /etc/printcap.  I guess I'll throw that one in, too.

Hopefully someone will be disgusted enough with this answser to speak up
and tell us the correct way. ;-)

-wolfgang
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