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I noticed that Pat V has moved lprng and apsfilter to the pasture in
slackware-current, with the comment that "These days most people want to
run CUPS which has more or less taken over the printing scene as the
defacto standard print system. LPRng will continue to be maintained
here, but getting it out of the main installation will end the annoying
problem of it overwriting the symlinks for CUPS and breaking it."

As I've just finished installing Slackware 10.0 on my laptop, and have
scheduled my server's upgrade for next weekend, I decided to try CUPS
out on my laptop, and possibly position myself (and my systems) for
Slackware 10.1's use of CUPS.

The cups install went well, but I couldn't see an easy way to hand
configure it. In the end, I used the kdeprinter configuration tool to
set up Cups on my laptop, and printed off the 118 page CUPS Software
Administrators manual that is supposed to be the guide to configuring
the system (the Printing-HOWTo doesn't say much about manually
configuring CUPS other than to point the reader at the CUPS
Administrators manual).

While I don't have a problem configuring my laptop using GUI tools, I'll
have to draw the line at my server. That machine is intentionally
GUI-less, and almost everything is hand-configured (excepting Samba, for
which I used SWAT, but hand-tuned the resulting config file).

So, to my question...

Can anyone here point me at a _simple_ CUPS configuration howto
document? Something aimed at hand-configuration of CUPS, but without the
volume of the CUPS Software Administrators Manual?




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Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Data Systems
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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