On 05/15/18 18:19, IL Ka wrote:
Hello Jordan,
>> you can do some neat things and avoid having to remove the ulpt(4)
driver from the kernel
What can be the reason to remove it?
Some people remove the ulpt driver to allow CUPS to interface easier
with their printer. This solution has always irritated me, and I prefer
using lpd to manage my printers. CUPS can still be used to print to an
lpd based print server, the only difference is that CUPS isn't handling
the spooling and network print jobs etc server-side.
Obsd does not have FAQ about that, but freebsd has pretty good
article: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/printing.html
And almost everything covered by it is true for openbsd.
This here is a good place to start: https://man.openbsd.org/lpd.8
No FAQ for printing, but the man pages are your friend. Many moons ago,
I as complete rookie at Unix printing, managed to set up my friends
restaurant using an OpenBSD lpd print server to drive all of his receipt
and kitchen print jobs. I managed to pull this off using only the man
pages. The OpenBSD man pages are a treasure trove of knowledge-- don't
always depend on the FAQ's entirely! The FAQ serves to supplement the
man pages, not replace them.
