Bug 60983

Printconf needs to do the right thing if CUPS rather than LPRng is being used: 
If CUPS is running (preferred check: see if anything is running on localhost:631), it 
should just call "htmlview http://localhost:631" instead of bringing up the normal 
printconf. (Both for X11 and text mode - the CUPS admin interface works nicely with lynx 
and htmlview handles that). 

The tricky thing is making PAM happy when you have

  user                                      root
tool [check :631]
execs
  /usr/bin/real-tool [console.apps]
                                     `-->  /usr/sbin/tool

I couldn't convince PAM to do the right thing when I tried.  Patches welcome. :-)

Since the cups admin tool doesn't need to be run as root (uses its own authentication,   
like any web based tool must), I'd suggest:   
   
/usr/bin/printconf:   
if checkcups; then   
	exec htmlview http://localhost:631/   
else   
	exec printconf-lprng   
fi   
   
Where only printconf-lprng uses consolehelper. 
 
Am I overlooking any problems with this?

I think so, yes.  Go ahead and try it out: usermode didn't do what I expected it
to when I tried this.

You probably forgot to rename the pam config files...   
This (ugly) patch to the spec file does the trick for me:   
 
--- SPECS/printconf.spec.cups   Mon Mar 11 14:33:44 2002 
+++ SPECS/printconf.spec        Mon Mar 11 14:33:50 2002 
@@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ 
 cp /etc/printcap /etc/printcap.save 
 /usr/share/printconf/util/import_printtool_queues.py 
 
+for i in printtool printconf-gui printconf-tui; do 
+       mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/$i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/$i-LPRng 
+       mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sbindir}/$i $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sbindir}/$i-LPRng 
+       perl -pi -e "s,$i,$i-LPRng,g" 
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/security/console.apps/$i 
+       mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/security/console.apps/$i 
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/security/console.apps/$i-LPRng 
+       mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/$i 
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/pam.d/$i-LPRng 
+       cat >$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/$i <<EOF 
+if ls -l /etc/alternatives/print |grep q cups; then 
+       exec htmlview http://localhost:631/ 
+fi 
+exec $i-LPRng 
+EOF 
+       chmod +x $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/$i 
+done 
+ 
 %clean 
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT 
 

Okay, I'll take another look.  BTW, 'ls -l /etc/alternatives/print |grep q cups'
is not just ugly but wrong.  ITYM 'test `/usr/sbin/alternatives --display print
| grep currently | cut -d. -f2` = cups'.

Created attachment 48384 [details]
It didn't work (see?).  Here's the patch I tried.  I can't figure out what's wrong.

*** Bug 70885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 72454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

redhat-config-printer 0.6.x handles CUPS.

*** Bug 75981 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***