Re: [tlug] Printer Not Responding

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:48:14PM +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> Scott,
> > One thing you can do is try turning up debugging in your cupsd.conf.
> >   

> I changed "info" to "debug" in the cupsd.conf file, as per the 
> instructions in the comments.
> 
> 
> Then went back to the command prompt:
> 
> dave@example.com:~$ more /var/log/cups_error.log
> /var/log/cups_error.log: No such file or directory
> dave@example.com:~$ locate cups_error.log
> dave@example.com:~$

Hrrm, perhaps an Ubuntu user can help?  This is the problem with some of
these user friendly distros.  Don't they have logs?

> > I have a page with some common CUPS problems at
> > http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html
> >   
> unsure which distribution you've listed would be most applicable to 
> Ubuntu, and which commands had the most likelihood of testing my 
> printer. Just didn't really know which part to go with, really.

To be honest, I'm not either. I've used CUPS with Debian and it Just
Worked(TM).   



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