Re: Unable to print after trying to switch to CUPS and back to LPD

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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:02, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:42:04PM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote:
[snip]
> > So, I tried switching back to LPD, again using the Printer Switcher
> > utility and restarting the appropriate daemon, stopping the other. Still
> > no dice.
>
> There is an extra thing you need to do.  The steps you need (it seems)
> are:
>
> redhat-switch-printer
> service cups stop
> chkconfig cups-lpd off
> service xinetd reload
> rm /etc/printcap
> service lpd start

Sounds like redhat-switch-printer needs some additional work.  When I switched 
from LPRng to cups, it removed all of the autostarting entries for lpd and 
added them for cups in runlevel 3, 4, and 5.  Furthermore, I left 
/etc/printcap and cups did not seem to care.

Gene



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