Re: Cannot connect to localhost:631

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

On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 17:08:04 +0100, AG wrote:

> As requested after restarting /etc/init.d/cups :
>
> $ sudo netstat -ant | grep LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8118          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9050          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> tcp6       0      0 ::1:25                  :::*                    LISTEN
>
> Apparently, it *isn't* listening, and yet still printing ... ?

I wonder what's on ports 8118 and 9050? netstat -tulpan would say. If
CUPS isn't hiding there (and I can see why it should be!) it just may be
time to think how you can print without it and what it did when it was
restarted.