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Re: comment and questions about the current 'comps' file for 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Feb 10 13:44:30 1999
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Feb 1999 13:43:36 -0500
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of 10 Feb 1999 11:40:13 -0500
OK, Aaron is working on the new athena-lpr and I've updated the comps
sources to install athena-filesystem and athena-lpr everywhere lpr had
been installed before (wow, it gets installed just about everywhere!)
I'm wondering if we want to turn lpd on by default in rc.conf?
-derek
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> 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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