V K writes:

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I am running cups as the printer daemon under Suse 8.0. Rpm -q cups reveals version 1.1.12-69 is installed.

Ensure your yast modules for cups are current. There were updates.

Did you use yast to configure it or did you do it the long way?

Yast is that which came with Suse 8.0 CDs. Yes, I did use yast in this case (unusual for me - I usually get frustrated with yast and go back doing it the proper way - edit the configuration files myself - much shorter and quicker and gets done exactly what I want. Anyway, since Suse have abandon support of a non-X window based yast, yast has been rendered practically useless. How do you configure a machine when you don't have X running or when you don't have physical access to the machine and have to get to the console through a serial port??? That's a major problem with yast imho. Btw, what is the long way to configure a machine? Use a disassembler and edit the object code whilst it is in memory and then force it back to the disc? You can rest assured that I have long ago given up such practices!)

might tell you something. I briefly switched to cups and didn't think it was as well supported, I didn't like it and went back to lprng.

Well, that raises interesting questions. I admit that I have found that standard lpr (BSD lpd), from my experiences with other Unices, is pretty limited and assumed that the case would be similar on Linux. That is why I went to cups. Your comments above suggest I might be wrong on that assumption. Anyone care to comment further on the pros/cons of cups versus lpd. Michael. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Cree Email: cree(a)phys.waikato.ac.nz Lecturer Dept. Physics and Elec. Eng. University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Fax: +64-7-8384835 Hamilton Telephone: +64-7-8384301 New Zealand