[PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

Roderick A. Anderson raanders42 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 14:25:44 UTC 2014


On 01/09/2014 05:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Daniel Hedlund wrote:
>
>> The cupsd.conf you pasted to the list did not include that line "with the
>> asterisk/wildcard".
>
> Daniel,
>
>     I missed that. Just added it to cupsd.conf then stopped and started cups.
> There must be something else wrong.
>
>> It might be possible to modify the cups client (and thus lpr) to connect
>> over the unix socket or localhost explicitly, but I just want to make sure
>> this solves the problem first. I.e. you could grep for all instances of
>> 'salmo' (grep -R salmo /etc/cups*) and then change them to localhost and
>> that might solve the problem without needing to change the cupsd.conf
>> Listen entry...but try the asterisk/wildcard variant first...just to make
>> sure that works.
>
>     See above. Adding the wildcard did not fix the problem.
>
>     Grepping for 'salmo' in /etc/cups* returns nothing.
>

Rich,

Have you tried deleting and recreating the printer definition in CUPS?

Far back in the fuzzy parts of my brain I remember having a similar 
problem and finally tried the above.


Rod
--
>     I wonder what might possibly have changed when the system turned off that
> is so subtle it's this difficult to find and fix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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