From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 19:35:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316D137BDC3 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28146; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:32:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:32:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Will Andrews , Wes Peters , Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <200006270223.e5R2Nr501622@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > A suggestion I made, that only Patrick picked up on and which requires > repeating, was to create lpr/lpc/lpd applications that were of similar > structure to /usr/sbin/sendmail, which performed a table lookup, to > find the real application to be used. > > The advantages would be that both lpr/lpd and LPRng, and by extension > sendmail and postfix, could be included in base and administrators > could use whichever application they wanted based upon functionality, > security, license preference, or any other criteria. Even if only one > print application were in the base, it would make making the other the > default much easier. > > Wouldn't this compromise or a form of this compromise satisfy most > everyone? Nope. Your suggestion is an adjunct to making software changeable, and something like it has already been done for sendmail/postfix, but it doesn't answer the question at all, merely makes changing things easier. The question is, I remind you, whether or not to remove lpd and replace it with lprng, now HOW to replace it. We can pretty much figure out how. Go take a look at /etc/mail/mailer.conf, or mailer.conf(5). Your basic idea is just fine (something about imitation being flattery, like that). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message