Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:07:10 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006271608.JAA32987@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:32:53 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006262226580.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006262226580.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>, Chuck Robey writes: > 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. Calm down. I was saying that we don't have to replace anything. Both can live in FreeBSD side-by-side. The only downside to this is additional work required to maintain both and the additional space required. Hence the word compromise. > > 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). That's what I just said. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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