Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:04:08 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpr/lpd changes Message-ID: <199707240334.NAA13866@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0wrBzr-0006Ed-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jul 23, 97 06:43:10 pm"
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.970722185910.22043G-100000@shell.uniserve.com> Tom writes: > : Unrelated: why on earth is lpd started by the default rc* stuff? Seems > : unwise to fire up something that needs to be configured to be useful > : first. > > That's a good question. would it make sense to have a grep for ^lp in > /etc/printcap before starting it? Or at least for lines not being > blank and not starting with #. No. The only behaviour that makes any sense is for lpd itself to exit with a diagnostic if no printers are defined; there is no point in trying to teach something else about a private configuration file. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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