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/ > > seems you refer to CUPS...
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: > > . . . set the default printer from the CUPS page 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) $ 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 -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
