[PLUG] Restart CUPS on Fedora 11

[John Jason Jordan]

All my printers are networked via ethernet. I have an ancient desktop Laserjet
4 Plus whose IP address is 192.168.0.15. I can ping it fine. But I can't seem
to send a print job to it.

First, I migrated all my printer setups from my old Ubuntu hard disk. I did
this by copying /etc/init.d/cups/cups.conf and the entire contents of the ppd
folder. I also restarted the computer. The printers appear in the Printer
configuration window. I can send a test page to it from any of the three
drivers that I have installed, and the test page appears in the print queue.
However, in the print queue it is listed as pending.

The printer is enabled, accepting jobs. I can't find anything wrong in the GUI
for the driver properties. However, looking at top the cupsd service is not
running. I thought you started and stopped CUPS with

/etc/init.d/cups/ ./cups stop/start

But that does not work, and there doesn't seem to be any executable files in
the folder anyway. I know in top when it is running it is listed as cupsd, but
that doesn't work either.

I have also restarted the computer, but the cupsd service is still not running.
I think it is supposed to start automatically whenever an app sends a print job
to a printer, but I'm not sure about that.

I really need to get my printers working ASAP.