[2559] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: comment and questions about the current 'comps' file for 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Feb 10 11:41:08 1999
To: Jacob Strauss <jastr@MIT.EDU>
Cc: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko), linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Feb 1999 11:40:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jacob Strauss's message of Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:46:09 EST
Ok, so we have two choices:
1) We can add the symlink, or
2) We can recompile lpd using /var/spool instead of /usr/spool.
Indeed, I bet this might even fix /usr/athena/bin/lpr w/ /usr/sbin/lpd!
I think #2 is cleaner, but #1 is faster. Comments?
-derek
Jacob Strauss <jastr@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > > No. I don't think anyone ever tested /usr/athena/etc/lpd, so I'm
> > > not at all surprised that it doesn't work. I don't know why it
> > > doesn't work, but that's a completely different question.
> >
> > Looks like it's unhappy because /usr/spool doesn't exist. (It should
> > be a symlink to /var/spool.)
>
> Yes, that fixed it, and it does make athena-lpr work with both local
> and athena printers.
>
> -Jacob
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