Redhat does use a text based printconfig tool its called printtool-tui or something to that effect..I've used it before and it works great! -Brent Clements Brent Clements Linux Technology Specialist Rice University ~There Are No Stupid Questions, But There Are A Lot Of Inquisitive Idiots.~ On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Ken Teh wrote: > I presently have a LPRng/ifhp setup on my 6.2 cluster which was installed > and configured using kickstart. Now that 7.1 uses LPRng/printconf, I'm > trying to figure out how to prep the post configure part to configure > printing via kickstart. > > I manually installed printconf and created some queues with the > printconf-gui tool, but the resulting printcap seems to be missing an > important bit of information, namely, the IP address of my printers even > though I specified them via the gui tool. > > I poked around and found the if filter calls jetdirectprint which is a > python script that loads some configuration called script.cfg. I could not > locate script.cfg. > > My question is: If the printer's IP address is missing from printcap, where > does the jetdirectprint filter or lpd find it? Is there some other file > that stores the printer info? > > My preference is not to deviate too much from a standard RedHat distro, but > question: Are other folks like me reverting to using ifhp to handle printer > personalities or sticking with printconf? If the latter, how do you handle > to kickstart post configure with printconf? > > > A note to RedHat: GUI setups are all fine and good, but for people like me > that have to install and configure a large number of machines, the old > fashioned text based stuff is vital. If you add a GUI config tool, please > ensure that it is still possible to configure stuff by hand, so we can take > advantage of kickstart which btw is a terrific tool. > > > Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
