From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 15:14:36 2005 Return-Path: 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 34EF616A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:14:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pukruppa.net (reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C17743D46 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:14:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j29FGiJG003725; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:16:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.net) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:16:43 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: Vittorio In-Reply-To: <200503091333.54083.v.demartino2@virgilio.it> Message-ID: <20050309161248.D24446@pukruppa.net> References: <200503091333.54083.v.demartino2@virgilio.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to fix the printing system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:14:36 -0000 On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Vittorio wrote: > As a newbye having a go at FreeBSD 5.3 I made a mess with the printing systems > so that now commands such as lpr, lpq, etc are said by the OS to be > "ambiguous" and nothing works any longer. > As a matter of fact, using the ports, I have compiled and installed LPRng, > apsfilter, cups, magicfilter over and over again, and now in the > various ../bin or ../sbin dir I find at list a couple of lpr, lpc, lpr, and > so on. In /var/db/pkg you will find a small directory for each port you ever installed. Check it and type # pkg_delete port_name for each that you wish to delete. You also might have to use -r, -R or -f options. Have a look at # man pkg_delete before you start. Good Luck, Uli. > > Now I'd like to turn back to the original installation situation, cleaning > everything is useless (In a nutshell a would go back to a LPD printing > system alone) ** without ** reinstalling FreeBSD from scratch (I compiled > also kde). > > Could you please suggest a correct procedure to do it? > > Ciao > Vittorio > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************