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Date:      Fri, 22 Feb 2002 01:15:50 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpd problem
Message-ID:  <p0510141cb89b9238fea9@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <p0510141bb89b90268270@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20020220214936.A876@lymond.lvcm.com> <p05101417b89b6c4018b2@[128.113.24.47]> <20020221204136.A236@lymond.lvcm.com> <p0510141bb89b90268270@[128.113.24.47]>

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At 1:10 AM -0500 2/22/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 8:41 PM -0800 2/21/02, Dale Morris wrote:
>>Is there a way to get lpd back? Or should I just try to install cups?
>
>Someone who knew CUPS more than I do might tell you to install cups,
>but I've only worked with the standard lpd.
>
>What you'd want to do, I think, is to log in as root, and then:
>
>      cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr
>      make obj
>      make depend
>      make
>      make install
>
>That should give you the right files in the right places, and then
>reboot with that   lpd_enable="YES"
>still set.

actually, you should probably also make sure your /etc/rc.conf
doesn't change anything else wrt lpd, such a changing the path
to the lpd program.  (just leave it with the default as set in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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