[6491] in Release_7.7_team
Re: ceres/bias switching to CUPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Manley)
Wed Nov 4 07:43:18 2009
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:42:47 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu
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Hello folks,
Sorry, I took yesterday off. To address your concerns:
Geoffrey: It's on my radar to extend the LPQ output. I don't want to try
in CUPS 1.3.x, which is currently the operating environment for the
printers.mit.edu system. I'm working on porting 1.4.1 into a usable
state, so I'll see what I can do.
Evan: A post-processing script that I wrote to keep offline printers
offline is stomping on the LPRM/LPC access rights for the queue. It's a
simple fix and I'll work on it this morning. The DCM is doing the Right
Thing [tm] by putting all the principals into the policy file, but the
script is messing up the printers.conf file OpPolicy directive.
I just put myself on the release-team list to keep up with any updates
from here on since I'm working on creating DebAthena based dialups and
this CUPS system. As you may have gathered, CUPS is far from perfect in
its vanilla state, but it's the print system of choice in Debian, Mac OS
X, and so on, so I think still it's the best to work with, especially
since it does Kerberos and I have the source.
-MM
