Re: CUPS

From: Aaron Peterson (aaron_at_alpete.com)
Date: 05/21/03

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    To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:00:44 -0700

    > 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. 

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maybe try starting the "cupsd" daemon
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