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I put this on the CentOS forums yesterday and it's been read 80 times, but no response..........I hope I'm not too impatient.

Hello,
I am trying to set up a 3 port HP Jetdirect 300x box. I have done the following:

Added jetdirect to host file with IP address.
Created 3 printers with lpadmin (one for each port).

Now I'm stuck. In SCO UNIX, you can just modify the rm variable in the /etc/printcap file to route print jobs to the hostname, however with CentOS, I cannot change that file because it will be overwritten by cupsd and the /etc/cups/printers.conf file doesn't have the rm variable there. Where can I make this change permanent? I did try lpoptions and it created an lpoptions file in /etc/cups with the variable that I added, I don't know that this is what I want to do, unless it somehow is read at the time a print job is sent I don't think it will work.

I did find that I could shut down cupsd and remove the startup script from /etc/rc5.d, which would then stop /etc/printcap from being overwritten, but this is going to cause problems because cups won't be running and then nothing will print.

Any help would be appreciated, I have checked Red Hat docs, CentOS, Googled, etc and all I can seem to find is how to do this via GUI interface, not command line. I've seen where it clearly says that you "cannot edit /etc/printcap", but not where it says what to edit to change the rm variable.

Thanks,
Nick

---------- Post updated at 10:21 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:19 AM ----------

Apparently there is no easy way to modify /etc/printcap to change the rm variable.

An associate of mine found something on an old forum that might work for the Jet Direct 300x...............the first printer on the box will be port 9100 and subsequent printers are on port 9101 & 9102.
So,
lpadmin -p testprinter1 -vsocket://192.168.10.10:9100 -E
lpadmin -p testprinter2 -vsocket://192.168.10.10:9101 -E
lpadmin -p testprinter3 -vsocket://192.168.10.10:9102 -E

I will have to test to confirm if this works.