Printing

[peter goggin]

It has continued to work and the system has been rebboted at least 3
times.  I still have no idea why oit stopped, but all seems well now.


Regards



Peter Goggin

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:38 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> On 17/08/10 22:54, peter goggin wrote:
> > Thanks for that. It certainly restored my printer.
> >    
> Good to hear!  Please keep replies on the mailing list.
> > Do I need to do this every time I reboot my system?
> >    
> 
> I've never found that to be necessary, but perhaps something has changed 
> to prevent startup of CUPS on your system.
> 
> In all my time working with Debian & Ubuntu (i switched from Red Hat to 
> Debian about 5 years ago), i've never had to fix startup on an 
> application that was provided with the system, so i don't even know how 
> to ensure that it's enabled for startup.  Time for a bit of Google...
> 
> OK, it seems that if you have the package sysv-rc-conf, you can use 
> sysv-rc-conf to enable and disable services on startup.  Try 
> "sysv-rc-conf --list cups" to see whether or not it is enabled.
> 
> Paul