Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:00:44 -0700 From: "Aaron Peterson" <aaron@alpete.com> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS Message-ID: <E19IJqO-0003s3-00@host02.ipowerweb.com>
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> 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
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