printing

[roland brouwers]

roland brouwers wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stevens
> Sent: donderdag 20 januari 2005 18:59
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: printing
> 
> roland brouwers wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>> 
>>
>>I have a printing problem.
>>
>>The application I wrote uses the Unix printing system or jetdirect and
> 
> a 
> 
>>generic interface, raw text.
>>
>>When I start a long printjob, something like 30 invoices, the spooljob
> 
> 
>>is never removed. In other words, when finished, the spooler launches 
>>his job again and again and again. He doesn't do this with a job, not 
>>longer than something like 10 pages.
>>
>>Could this be a problem of RedHat9?
> 
> 
> I've never heard of that specific problem, but RH9 did have some known
> printing issues.  BTW, you didn't say if you were using CUPS or LPRng.
> 
> 
>>I heard that for the RH enterprise, there was a patch for this
> 
> problem.
> 
> Entirely possible, although RHEL is based on RH7.2.  Have you checked
> the update base at Fedora Legacy for CUPS and/or LPRng updates
> (depending on which you're using)?
> 
> 
>>I have this problem with all my RH9 installations.
> 
> 
> That wouldn't surprise me.
> 
> I would highly recommend you go to http://www.fedoralegacy.org and do
> a couple of things.  First, install yum or apt-get from that site on
> your RH9 machines, then update your systems:
> 
> 	# yum update cups*    or   # yum update lprng*
> -or-
> 	# apt-get -u update cups    or   # apt-get -u update lprng
> 
> Remember that RH9 is dead (as of April of last year) and the only
> updates you can get will be from the Fedora Legacy group.  You should
> also think about updating to Fedora Core 2 or 3 at some point.  I
don't
> know how long Fedora Legacy will continue to support RH9
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>
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> RH9 installs by standard the CUPS printing system.
> But when I run the lp -d command  it puts the spoolfiles in
> /var/spool/cups.
> 
> What do I have to do, to disable the Cups printing system and start
lpr
> or lpd?
> 
>>From what i read about lpr from the manual, it uses cups, so what is
the
> use?

There are two competing printing mechanisms under Linux...CUPS and
LPRng.  LPRng is the more, uh, "classic" Unix printing system.  CUPS
("C Unified Printing System") is a greatly improved printing mechanism.
Both use the same commands (lpr, lprm, lpq, etc.), however the commands
have actually been renamed "lpr.cups" and "lpr.lprng", etc.) and
symbolic links point to the actual commands.  The links are changed as
you select either CUPS or LPRng as your printing system.  Which one are
you using?  Do "ls -l /etc/alternatives/print" and it'll show you what
the symbolic link points at.  Odds are it'll be "lpr.cups", meaning
you're using CUPS.

So, make sure you update your CUPS software.  If you installed yum or
apt-get as I recommended, just use: "yum -y update cups*" or
"apt-get -u update cups*" to update to the latest release from the
Fedora Legacy gang (remember, Red Hat doesn't support RH9 anymore).

I downloaded LPRng-3.8.28-1.i386.rpm

sh-2.05b# rpm -ivh LPRng-3.8.28-1.i386.rpm

Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]  
        file /etc/printcap from install of LPRng-3.8.28-1 conflicts with
file from package setup-2.5.25-1

sh-2.05b#  

I did an update from fedora with : yum -y update LPRng*


Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)              
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror                      
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 updates -- Fedora US mirror              
Server: K12TLSP                                                  
Server: Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 9 -- US mirror 
Finding updated packages                                         
Downloading needed headers                                       
Cannot find any package matching LPRng available to be updated.  
sh-2.05b#                                                        

What am I missing here?
Is every update coming from Fedora with yum, after the update active, or
do I have to restart something?

If I can get LPRng installed, how do I activate it?

Thank you for being patient with me and my simple questions.
Roland