From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 05:39:49 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 9142516A4C0 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7731543F93 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander.Farber@t-online.de) Received: from fwd11.aul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19tRUg-00044p-01; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:39:46 +0200 Received: from pref.my.domain (rfVW9eZ1QedWFtCicN8RaR+95Lax78uvSs7eAGZog+5-5ZY3s0q9on@[217.82.221.201]) by fwd11.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19tRUQ-0FJEpM0; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:39:30 +0200 Received: from pref.my.domain (alex@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pref.my.domain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7VCZKsI030733 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:35:21 GMT Received: (from alex@localhost) by pref.my.domain (8.12.8/8.12.9/Submit) id h7VCZHVc019042; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:35:17 GMT Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:35:16 +0000 From: Alexander.Farber@t-online.de (Alexander Farber) To: Todd Stephens Message-ID: <20030831123515.GA14340@pref.my.domain> References: <200308302332.50368.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308302332.50368.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> X-Url: X-Operating-System: OpenBSD 3.3 i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Seen: false X-ID: rfVW9eZ1QedWFtCicN8RaR+95Lax78uvSs7eAGZog+5-5ZY3s0q9on cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get CUPS to work (newbie) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:39:49 -0000 Is the reason maybe, that you missed to execute these commands: newhope:alex {646} pkg_info -D cups-base-1.1.18.0_5 Information for cups-base-1.1.18.0_5: Install notice: ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** NOTE FOR PACKAGE USERS ONLY: ============================ This package does not create the spool directory, due to limitations in the packaging mechanism, or my knowledge of it. Once the package is installed, please do the following (as root): cd /var/spool mkdir -p cups/tmp chown -R root:daemon cups On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 11:32:50PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > I have CUPS installed on my 4.8 system. I cannot seem to configure it, > though. I have tried the web interface at localhost:631, but it seems > that the cupsd.conf file was not created. Well, then I tried to create > this using the print server configuration in KDE and I keep getting > permission denied errors when I try to write the cupsd.conf file > (running this as root, btw).