Re: Making use of the default printer

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:37:43 +0200, Martin Marcher wrote:

>> What's the "Default Printer" actually means?
>>
>> I've setup one of my printers to be "Default Printer",
>> 
http://localhost:631/printers/

oh yes.

>> and I unset the LPDEST environment variable, in hoping the consequent
>> lpr will be using the "Default Printer", but this is what I get:

yes, that's what I did, and what http://localhost:631/printers/ indicated.

> and simply use lp
> as the wrapper from the command line....

hmm, same error:

 lp test.ps
 lp: Error - LPDEST environment variable names non-existent destination ""!

Anything wrong with my system?

$ type lp
lp is hashed (/usr/bin/lp)

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$ type lpr
lpr is /usr/bin/lpr

$ dir /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lpr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14024 2007-02-02 /usr/bin/lp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9888 2007-02-02 /usr/bin/lpr*

My cupsys packages:

 cupsys_1.2.7-4

 cupsys-bsd_1.2.7-4
 cupsys-client_1.2.7-4
 cupsys-common_1.2.7-4

thanks

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