[olug] cups problem

[Don Kauffman]

It gave me output of "here: 631", which I'm guessing is a way of telling
me that nothing's listening here. Now what do I do to get cups to listen
there? I am running Suse 9.1 with the firewall. Do I need to open that
port? I didn't specifically have it open before.

Don 
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 15:31, Eli Criffield wrote:
> fuser -n tcp 631 will give you the pid of what is listening on port 631,
> but if it doesn't show up with "netstat --inet -nlp" then i'm guessing its
> nothing is really binded to 631.
> 
> eli
> 
> >Thank you,
> >
> >I tried this and port '631' is not listed.
> >
> >Don 
> >
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 13:42, David Walker wrote:
> > as root "netstat --inet -nlp" will give you a list of listening ports
> > with the 
> > name of the program listening on that port
> > 
> > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 01:35 pm, Don Kauffman wrote:
> > > I've been having a cups problem the last couple of days.
> > >
> > > I reinstalled cups after trying LPRng. cups dies with the following
> > > message:
> > >
> > > cupsd: Child exited with status 98!
> > >
> > > I've done a fair amount of online searching and found that this
> > > indicates that something else is already listening on the port that
> > > cupsd is configured on (631). I'm looking for a way to find out what
> > > else is listening on that port and maybe  what I can do about it. I
> > > used
> > > to know a command that told me that but I've forgotten it.
> > >
> > > nmap doesn't do it -- at least none of the options that I've tried
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Thanks anyone,
> > >
> > > Don Kauffman
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