[PLUG] Restart CUPS on Fedora 11

wes plug at the-wes.com
Thu Dec 3 15:22:58 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:58:27 -0800
> Dan Young <danielmyoung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Huh?
>
> I meant, first cd to /etc/init.d/cups/ and then do either ./cups stop or
> ./cups
> 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.
> >
> > /etc/init.d/cups start
> >
> > or (a bit of a Red Hat-ism):
> >
> > service cups start
>
> Well, the ./cups start command did not work. But the service command did
> the
> job. I just printed a test page and all appears well.
>
> However, there remains the question why CUPS stopped in the first place. I
> had
> rebooted the computer, so if it starts on boot, then it should have been
> running. Or if it starts only when the user sends a print job, it still
> should
> have been started when I sent numerous test pages to the printer.
>
> By sheer coincidence the Fedora Update Manager popped up just before I
> checked
> mail. There were 35 updates, and two of them involved CUPS. I had just
> applied
> the updates, and a few minutes later did the service command.
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find your cups.log and see if it says anything interesting.

and/or, look up how to enable a service to start on boot for your current
distro. maybe it just isn't set up to on yours.

-wes



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