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Re: Tentative fix for BSD lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baba Z Buehler)
Tue Jul 25 19:16:56 1995
Reply-To: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
From: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
To: florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
Cc: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch), linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 1995 22:58:31 +0200."
<199507242058.WAA05370@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:59:49 -0500
Florian La Roche <florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de> writes:
> Could someone please check out plp 4.0.2 as on ftp.iona.ie:/pub/plp
> Has it also some of the BSD-lpr bugs?
> I have compile it with the following patches, but I haven't tested it
> yet.
> Should we suggest to Linux users to use plp instead of BSD lpr?
> Or someone who wants to check the current source from NetBSD, if
> lpr has changed alot in it? Have they already done most of the bug-fixes?
>
> Sorry for just posting questions and no answers...
>
I have been working with the people who develop PLP for the last 6 months now,
and we are using it here on our Sun machines as our Institute-wide printing
server. I have also been running it on my Linux machine.
The PLP people are very security aware and are even working on a totally new
distributed printing system that circumvents many of the current BSD-style
lpr/lpd problems.
I've found PLP to be a very good replacement for the lpr/lpd that came with my
Slackware distribution.
I also operate a U.S. mirror of the PLP distribution (the link into
ftp.iona.ie, in Ireland can be very slow at times).
ftp://ftp.beckman.uiuc.edu/pub/plp/
thanks,
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