[Grml] FYI: Printing on remote CUPS server via lpr (package cupsys-bsd)

Michael Prokop mika at grml.org
Tue Sep 19 17:11:57 CEST 2006


* Robert Zöhrer <robert.zoehrer at pronet.at> [20060919 15:11]:

> 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:

[...]

> 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.

Thanks for debugging and feedback, Robert!

I just replaced the lpr package with cupsys-bsd.

regards,
-mika-
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