Thanks Robert - I have been wondering for weeks why adobe et al did not print.

The FYI is genuinely appreciated.

Best, m

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" wrote:

Hi,

while seeting up grml (HD-install) as my new working environmnet, I wanted to print on my CUPS printer server via cups-client from my grml running notebook:

Printing via "old" (BSD style) commands

lpr $somefile

always returns something like:

"jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." and no page was printing :(

Because "lpstat -o -p -d" shows all available printer queues, I was perplexed

After playing around a bit I noticed that

# aptitude show lpr Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "lpr" Package: lpr State: installed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

is the problem. When printing via CUPS you need the wrapper package "cupsys-bsd" instead of "lpr" to be installed - otherwise all print jobs are handled by old BSD style lpr queue :/

This is _not_ really a grml bug, but maybe coexistent installing both of these packages should be thought over.

Maybe this report helps other folks with same troubles