Re: [Sheflug] CUPS

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, wulfie wrote:

> I've just been playing with CUPS (with the gimp-print drivers) from the
> LFX issue 10 cover CD. I installed from source onto a virgin SuSE 7.0
> system & had it all running in about 15 mins, including a "just in
> case" reboot. One security note - the control web server is exposed on
> port 631 (privelaged, so needs root access - at least in theory) and CUPS
> itself is IPP (internet printing) capable, so make sure you set your
> firewall phasers to "kill" before putting this on a web-facing system.

It looks good, but I've had a few problems with CUPS and fitting text on
an A4 page. I think I have it setup right everywhere but the edge get's
cut off anyway. So I'm back to LPRng now.


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