From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 18:10:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4761937B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAA2ANR16051; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:10:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:10:23 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Tim McMillen Cc: System Operator , desmo@bandwidth.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT - LPRng port error! Message-ID: <20001109181022.J11449@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001110123609.A18806@ajax.fhs.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from timcm@umich.edu on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:07:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Tim McMillen [001109 18:07] wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, System Operator wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I jsut installed the latest LPRng port. FreeBSD 3.5. > > > > It has stomped all over my /etc/printcap, /etc/lpd.conf > > and /etc/lpd.perms files!!! > > No problem. Just get a copy of those files from the regular backups > you've been making. > The port needs to modify those files. I don't know but it may have backed > them up for you also. > > > Please fix pronto! > > Eddie. > > Eddie, if you want help from a group of volunteers, you might want > to watch your tone. We're just users of FreeBSD, we're not here to solve > all your issues for you. If you really need it fixed, noone is stopping > you. Submit some diffs for the code and all will be well again in > wonderland. Maybe I'm a bit jaded, but his request wasn't that harsh, he should have taken the time to mail the port maintainer though. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message