Common Unix Printing System: Difference between revisions

from HTYP, the free directory anyone can edit if they can prove to me that they're not a spambot
← Older editNewer edit →
Woozle (talk | contribs)
Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, interwiki, Administrators, trusted
20,099 edits
VisualWikitext
→Error Messages: commands: restarting CUPS
→Reference: local CUPS menu
Line 6: Line 6:
* {{wikipedia|Common Unix Printing System}}
* {{wikipedia|Common Unix Printing System}}
* [http://cups.org official web site]
* [http://cups.org official web site]
* Local manual pages (should work if you have CUPS running; searchable):
* Local pages (should work if you have CUPS running):
** [http://localhost:631/help/overview.html Overview of CUPS]
** [http://localhost:631/ menu]
** [http://localhost:631/help/?TOPIC=Man+Pages manpages]
** manual pages (searchable):
*** [http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html cupsd.conf]
*** [http://localhost:631/help/overview.html Overview of CUPS]
*** [http://localhost:631/help/?TOPIC=Man+Pages manpages]
**** [http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html cupsd.conf]
 
==Related Pages==
==Related Pages==
* [[2007-04-16 hypertwins printing problem]]
* [[2007-04-16 hypertwins printing problem]]

Revision as of 17:20, 6 May 2012

computing: software: UNIX/Linux: Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

Overview

The Common Unix Printing System, abbreviated CUPS, is an API for providing printer services across different flavors of UNIX/Linux.<hide> 

 page status::seed

</hide>

This page is a seed article. You can help HTYP water it: make a request to expand a given page and/or donate to help give us more writing-hours!

Reference

Concepts

  • class: a group of printers wherein the first available printer will accept each job sent to the class.
  • job: a particular document submitted for printing by a particular client (machine) to a particular printer
  • queue: a list of documents to be printed by a particular printer or class
  • printer

Error Messages

There doesn't seem to be any catalog on the CUPS site of possible error messages and what they mean.

  • cupsdAuthorize:
    • Local authentication certificate not found!

Commands

To restart CUPS (on Ubuntu and similar distros, anyway) is: 

invoke-rc.d cupsys restart
Retrieved from "https://htyp.org/mw/index.php?title=Common_Unix_Printing_System&oldid=17786"