ports/52944: CUPS is not configurable on 4.8-RELEASE

[c. murdock]

The following reply was made to PR ports/52944; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "c. murdock" <cmurdock at ccfls.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/52944: CUPS is not configurable on 4.8-RELEASE
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:09:04 -0400

 I had this problem as well.  While investigating, I noticed that 
 /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/cups/tmp didn't exist.  I created them, and 
 was able to get past the error message in bug 52944.  However, at the last 
 step in the Add Printer process though the CUPS utililty at localhost:631, 
 where you click continue after choosing the printer model, I would get this 
 error mesage:  "server-error-internal-error".  Upon further investigation, I 
 found that /var/log/cups was also missing.  I created that directory, and the 
 logs appeared in there immediately.  In the error log was the following:
 
 AddCert:  Unable to create certificate file /usr/local/etc/cups/certs/0 - No 
 such file or directory.
 
 I looked in /usr/local/etc/cups, and there was no certs directory.  I created 
 that.  Then I tried again.  The next time I tried adding the printer, I got 
 this error message:
 
 add_printer:  Unable to copy PPD file from 
 /usr/local/share/cups/model/laserjet1100.ppd to 
 /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd/lj1100.ppd - No such file or directory!
 
 And again, /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd didn't exist, so I created it.  Finally it 
 added the printer, and it works, although it has crashed on me a couple of 
 times and I'm getting continual messages warning me of possible DoS attacks 
 from my own computer like so in my logs:
 
 Possible DoS attack - more than 10 clients connecting from <myhostname>!
 
 Also, although the web-based CUPS admin utility finds the drivers, KDE's 
 utility (printmgr) does not.  I had to manually browse to 
 /usr/local/etc/cups/model/laserjet1100.ppd.
 
 All this makes me wonder what else is missing!
 
 -- 
 Cindy Murdock
 Network Administrator
 Meadville Public Library/Crawford County Federated Library System
 http://meadvillelibrary.org & http://ccfls.org