Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 21:27:42 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Built-in lpr vs CUPS Message-ID: <20040508202742.GA93217@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <871xlu3lk5.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <871xlu3lk5.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de>
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On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:55:54PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> The default setup is to include /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in
> $PATH. This means that entering "lpr -Pfoo" doesn't work for printing
> on my machine, I have to say "/usr/local/bin/lpr -Pfoo".
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> It is obvious that I could change $PATH to mention /usr/local/bin
> before /usr/bin, but is that the right solution? Surely there is a
> reason for /etc/login.conf to mention /usr/bin first.
Most of the system assumes it's using the utilities that come with it:
ie. the contents of /usr/bin. Equivalently named programs could well
be installed into /usr/local/bin, and those need not behave exactly
the same, so for consistencies' sake, having /usr/bin first is
generally better.
However, that's not always what's required, and putting /usr/local/bin
before /usr/bin in your path might be the right solution for certain
user accounts. (Real users, not system ones)
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> Any thoughts are very much appreciated.
An alternative is to set up some shell aliases for those commands:
% alias lpr /usr/local/bin/lpr
Cheers,
Matthew
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