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Bug 10229

Summary:	how do you configure a printer without X?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	dentar
Component:	printer-config	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7.0	CC:	bero
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Description dentar 2000-03-19 00:00:58 UTC

I have several new engineers who want to be able to configure a printer
without using "printtool" (which requires X, unfortunately).  However,
they're chickens and don't want to vi /etc/printcap.  Is there a printtool
for text mode?

How can you configure a printer for a server that has not had X loaded on
it besides the vi /etc/printcap way?

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-20 14:19:39 UTC

There's no such tool at the moment (if you want to write one, you're more than welcome to do so ;) ).
Assigning this to the person handling printing as a feature request.

Comment 2 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-02-01 21:01:43 UTC

There is a new printconf system. It is part of this system's medium term goals
to be able to import settings from another system's configuration, so that one
machine with X can be used to configure many without it. printtool will see no
further development, as printconf is already becoming more robust.