Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:59:00 -0400 From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work) Message-ID: <bja4r5$52v$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20030902083534.C61B216A513@hub.freebsd.org> <20030902170641.59003.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com>
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Mark Terribile wrote:
>
> Todd:
>
>>>... Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the
>>> foomatic-rip/gimp-print method [from]
>>> Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at
>>> /dev/lpt0.
>>> ...
>> Looks like I got it. I installed the printer
>> again using a different driver (one that for some
>> reason did not show up the first time I tried)
>> and it works now.
>
> I went through a hassle on the C82, and I don't know
> that I could reproduce everything I did,
I went through this hassle yesterday. I was up from 11:00PM
to 5:30AM working on it. I thought it might be a good idea to
take notes. Obviously, you've got to download the foomatic-rip
script and the foomatic-gswrapper script from the linuxprinting.org
site and follow the instructions there to install it, but here are
the ADDITIONAL things I had to do to get the cups port/package
working properly under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be
necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.)
su
mv /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh.sample /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start
mkdir /var/log/cups
touch /var/log/cups/access_log
mkdir /usr/local/etc/cups/certs
mkdir /var/spool/cups
mkdir /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd
mkdir /var/spool/cups/tmp
I then configured my printer by following the instructions on
Linuxprinting.org and pointing my browser to:
http://localhost:631/
Also, if you want to use cups from the command line, via the lp*
commands (this seems to be a requirement for GNOME/gtk* programs,
since GNOME doesn't natively support cups yet), you need to do this:
su
mkdir /usr/bin/old-lp-commands
mv /usr/bin/lp* /usr/bin/old-lp-commands
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp* /usr/bin
The most important thing to remember is that any cups/web errors you
receive will be debuggable in two ways:
1.) Check /var/log/cups/error_log
If this doesn't give you enough information, proceed to
step #2 below:
2.) In /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf, uncomment the following:
LogLevel debug
And restart the cupsd daemon:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh stop
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start
Now, any errors logged to /var/log/cups/error_log will be
quite verbose. This is useful for debugging errors thrown
by the foomatic-rip perl script. However, I'd like to note
that I did NOT have to modify my foomatic-rip script in
any way.
Conclusion:
===========
The FreeBSD cups package/port doesn't create the necessary
directory structure needed to configure and run cupsd properly.
I can overlook the fact that the cups port doesn't presume to
automatically replace the /usr/bin/lp* commands, but failing to
create the necessary directory structure is inexcusable. Someone
should fix that.
I hope the above information is useful to someone. It MAY NOT
be 100% complete. I was very tired when I took the above notes.
Please write me and let me know if you had to add anything or
do anything different from the above. But Note: I do NOT want
to know what you had to do to install foomatic-rip, hpijs, or
any other printer-specific software properly. I'm only interested
in cups configuration and setup info.
My email address is jesse@wingnet.net.
Have a great day!
--
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f)
http://www.wingnet.net
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