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[Mitch Contla]

Bill Davidson said the following on 11/30/2006 12:21 PM:
> norman wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:19 +0000, norman wrote:
>>     
>>>> If you don't need samba for anything else, and don't want to run an
>>>> unnecessary service, just use ipp printing via cups. Check out this post:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1561331&postcount=2
>>>>         
>>> Thank you, it looks good and I will give it a try.
>>>       
>> I tried this and got the following before I could complete the process:-
>>
>> norman at gruber:~$ #/etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf
>> norman at gruber:~$ #Listen localhost:631
>> norman at gruber:~$ Listen *:631
>> bash: Listen: command not found
>>     
>
> Those aren't commands to be run. They're lines that go in a config file. 
> Not clear in the forum post I know.
>
> Most config files start with a comment with the name of the file and 
> it's full path on the first line. In this case:
> #/etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf
>
> So create the file "/etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf" (without quotes) and 
> add those lines to it. AFAIK that file is not included by default. Then 
> execute the command "sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart" (without quotes).
>
> HTH,
> Bill
>
>   
/etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf is created by cupsys.postinst when you
install the cupsys package. You are definitely right about my post not
being clear. I will correct that.

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Mitch