cupsd

I'm trying to use my printer (an OKI C530dn) with my freshly-installed FreeBSD laptop. I am using CUPS for this, and I have set it up correctly. However, it's not working at all. When I opened the CUPS web interface, I found the following error message: Idle - "File...

Hi guys! I am quite new to FreeBSD. I have some questions about setting up my own backend for CUPS. The goal is to save the incoming print job into a PDF on a directory and change the owner of the created PDF file to the user sending the print job. My current progress looks something like this...

By following the instructions in https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/cups/, I installed print/cups and started the cupsd daemon. However, I noticed that the cupsd process runs as root. Does CUPS really need superuser privileges to print documents? If not, how do I make cupsd run as a less...

Cause: CUPS was configured to use IPv4 addresses. LPD was configured to use domain names. A change to the printer addresses and to DNS allowed LPD to work and broke CUPS. Solution: Reconfigure printers in CUPS to use IPP to printer domain names. OP: I am seeing this in lpstat -p -d -R: #...