[olug] Jon Larsen, Thanks for the attempt (CUPS problems SuSE 9.1)

[Jon H. Larsen]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 troehr at nj-onramp.com wrote:

> Date: Wed,  4 Aug 2004 11:54:56 -0500
> From: troehr at nj-onramp.com
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Jon Larsen,
>      Thanks for the attempt (CUPS problems SuSE 9.1)
> 
> Port 631 is probably being tied up by whatever version of inetd that is running
> on the box.
> 
> If you try:
> 
> telnet localhost 631
> 
> Telnet will try to attach to port 631 on the localhost. If it connects, then
> "something" is listening there. 
> 
> On my RH box, /etc/services has 631 assigned to ipp, the Internet Printing
> Protocol. If there are similar lines on the SUSE /etc/services, comment them or
> remove them, and recycle the *inetd service.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Tom

A telnet to the port did not produce any results.

Cups is IPP, that's why is runs on 631.  No need to remove the lines from 
/etc/services.  

More info: this is all localhost connect stuff, no remote printing.   The 
printer is connected via /dev/lp0.

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