Re: CUPS weirdness

* Quoth Bart Garst (bartgarst@cox.net), on Sun, 2004.08.15, at 15:51 -0700:
> On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:24, David Huerta wrote:
> > The other day I set up CUPS (web interface) on a Slackware 9.1 server,
> > printed a test page, printed something from Mozilla, and was generally
> > satisfied. Yesterday, I tried printing a .pdf file from gv, tried
> > printing from Mozilla, Opera, but to no avail. Test prints still work,
> > and I have removed and re-added the printer (hp deskjet 5550). Same
> > results; I can print test pages, but nothing else, even as root. I am
> > using Foomatic + hpijs. Here's my printers.conf file:
>
> I just recently had to overcome a simmilar problem (some apps would
> print, others wouldn't).
>
> My problem was I didn't have `lpr` available.
>
> I don't know if this will solve yours, but I thought it worth
> mentioning.

Slackware oftentimes installs both lprng and cups; gv might be calling
the default "lpr" instead of "lpr-cups". Have a look at your symlinks.

/i.
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