From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 20:00:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDCC37B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 20:00:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host02.ipowerweb.com (host02.ipowerweb.com [12.129.206.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F7A43FA3 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 20:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alpetec@host02.ipowerweb.com) Received: from alpetec by host02.ipowerweb.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19IJqO-0003s3-00; Tue, 20 May 2003 20:00:44 -0700 From: "Aaron Peterson" To: Robert Storey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.25 X-IPAddress: 139.55.49.242 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:00:44 -0700 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host02.ipowerweb.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [33877 2452] / [33877 2452] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - host02.ipowerweb.com Subject: Re: CUPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: aaron@alpete.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 03:00:50 -0000 > In order to avoid the trauma of manually setting up a printer by editing > /etc/printcap, I thought I would use CUPS. I noticed that it does exist in > the ports collection, so I went ahead and installed it. However, I'm not > really sure how to start it. In Linux, the usual way to run the CUPS > configuration utility is to open Mozilla and type the url > "http://localhost:631/", but when I try that in FBSD, Mozilla complains: > > "The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:631" > > The handbook doesn't say anything about CUPS, nor is it mentioned in my > dead-tree reference "FreeBSD Unleashed." I assume that maybe CUPS is a > recent port to FBSD? I welcome any suggestions on how to make it work. --- maybe try starting the "cupsd" daemon