Re: Tea4CUPS: TEABILLING reports error

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 18 Jun 2018 at 22:04:50 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> thank you for your response and please apologize for my slow response.

No problem.

> On Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2018 20:04:22 CEST Brian wrote:
> > Your tea4cups.conf is poorly.  Here is a minimal one which works for me:
> >   [Global]
> >   debug : yes
> >   directory : /var/spool/cups/
> >   prehook_sispmctl : sispmctl -ng 4 2> /tmp/SISPMCTL
> 
> Hmm....mine does not look so much different, I edited them template shipped by 
> Debian:
> 
> rd@b370:/var/log/cups$ grep -v '^#' /etc/cups/tea4cups.conf |grep -v '^$'
> [global]
> directory : /var/spool/cups/
> prehook_sispmctl : /usr/local/bin/printeron
> rd@b370:/var/log/cups$
> 
> ... 
> 
> I had to change [Global]-> [global] in your config (?)

A typo. Sorry.

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> root@b370:/etc/cups# lpadmin -p virtq -v tea4cups:// -E -m raw 
> lpadmin: Raw queues are deprecated and will stop working in a future version 
> of CUPS. 
> root@b370:/etc/cups#

Nothing to worry about (yet).

> > 3. Print to virtq:
> > 
> >     lp -d virtq /etc/services
> 
> root@b370:/etc/cups#  lp -d virtq /etc/services   
> Anfrage-ID ist virtq-40 (1 Datei(en)) 
> root@b370:/etc/cups#
> 
> 
> > 4. cat /tmp/SISPMCTL and look at the error_log.
> 
> rd@b370:~$ cat /tmp/SISPMCTL  
> rd@b370:~$ 
> 
> not sure why this is empty... (?)

The hook completes without a warning. I get told that no GEMBIRD SIS-PM
is found.

> but no entry in the error_log

So, the hook works.
 
> > 5. Test with your original queue and my tea4cups.conf.
> 
> same behavior as above, printeron is executed when issuing
> 
> lp -d virtq /etc/services 
> 
> But when printing on my queue

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> I get the same error_log again:

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> Is my DeviceURI wrong?

You mean "tea4cups:/http://hpljwlan:631/ipp/";? Advice on an IPP URI is at

  https://wiki.debian.org/PrintQueuesCUPS

Or use tea4cups:/socket://... instead.

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-- 
Brian.