From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 8:23: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A550B37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554BF43F43 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from frodo.my.domain (0x3ef312fb.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.18.251]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949495EE226; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:22:43 +0100 (CET) From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] lpd/lpr "stopped" working Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:23:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: alane@geeksrus.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org References: <1044373394.31223@mail6.wannafind.dk> In-Reply-To: <1044373394.31223@mail6.wannafind.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302041723.36965.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 04 February 2003 16:46, you wrote: > > "I" haven't installed cups, but looks like KDE "dragged" it along. So > > yes, cups-lpr seems to be installed and no cupsd is not runing. And I > > really don't like cups running, I'm quite happy with the systems lpr/lpd. > > So, can I remove safely all-that-is-cups without breaking anything in > > KDE? And how do I reinstate my systems lpr? > I don't know if pkg_deinstalling cups will break KDE, but I'm going to > wager a guess that you have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your path, > and that if you reverse them, printing will work. $ echo $PATH /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/mekanix/bin But this is a shell-prompt, and thus reads the /etc/profile ~/.profile or login.conf... but could KDM do som mixup of order? /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xsession does something to the PATH, but I don't know much about shell-scripting so it's pure jibberish to me. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message