[PLUG] lpr: Connection refused [UPDATE]

[Ken Stephens]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Ken Stephens wrote:
>
>> What does your alternatives have for lpr and lp? Are they links to cups?
> Ken,
>
>     I'm not understanding your question. If I look at the lpr man page it's
> provided by Apple since they bought CUPS from Easy Software a bunch of years
> ago. 'which lpr' and 'which lp' show hard links to /usr/bin/.
>
> Rich
>
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG mailing list
> PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
>
Rich

In my Fedora distribution:
ls  -hal /etc/alternatives/print*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print -> 
/usr/bin/lpr.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-cancel 
-> /usr/bin/cancel.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Nov 24 16:08 
/etc/alternatives/print-cancelman -> /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lp -> 
/usr/bin/lp.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lpc -> 
/usr/sbin/lpc.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lpcman 
-> /usr/share/man/man8/lpc-cups.8.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 32 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lpman -> 
/usr/share/man/man1/lp-cups.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lpq -> 
/usr/bin/lpq.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lpqman 
-> /usr/share/man/man1/lpq-cups.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lprm -> 
/usr/bin/lprm.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lprman 
-> /usr/share/man/man1/lpr-cups.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lprmman 
-> /usr/share/man/man1/lprm-cups.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Nov 24 16:08 /etc/alternatives/print-lpstat 
-> /usr/bin/lpstat.cups
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Nov 24 16:08 
/etc/alternatives/print-lpstatman -> /usr/share/man/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz

Don't know if your distribution has these.

Ken