There seem to be two minor bugs in the excellent Gentoo Linux Printing HOWTO. First, a printer-dependent buglet. In testing the printer by using cat test.txt > /dev/lp0 If the test file is built as documented, many printers will give no response. My LaserJet III and other HP types need a ^L (Control-L) at the end of the file to trigger printing. Without the ^L the cat succeeds, and the printer absorbs the data, then sits and does nothing - indistinguishable from a serious interface or printer problem. Second, a release-dependent buglet. The latest CUPS 1.1.18 ebuild is set up by default for a degree of security so high that printing is all but impossible. The Web administration tool will allow one to install the printer, but not to print a text page. The critical need is to change the permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. I changed to a very inclusive set of permissions for initial test: <Location /> Order Deny,Allow Deny From None Allow From All </Location> then restarted cups and all was well. You can tighten up security once printing is known to work. With these two minor items, I'd have had a first-time success. I shrink from admitting how many hours it took to figure out these minor points. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
hi! things that need to be done there(since i'm not in the doc cvs group i can't): First: add a comment there that it might not work with some printers Second: add a comment there with the example given here and that the standard config is for security reasons feel free to ask me .. greetings
since Alain just added me to cvsdoc group i can do it myself if anything is unclear .. just assign back to me with a note than.. greetings
So is this done then? Please post your change to docs-review before doing anything.
will do/check next week when i'm home again ..
since i'm not the only printing team member now: reassign'in
who could check/commit this? (don't have the rights in cvs anymore it seems..) @seemant: didn't know whom else to CC ..
Created attachment 14671 [details, diff] printing-howto-diff @docs-team: can you please apply this patch and close the bug
Patch applied (http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/printing-howto.html). Will be committed tomorrow.
Committed.
