From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 23 10:21:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22220 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA22209 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA25582; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:20:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA01757; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:04:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970923190412.GM59568@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:04:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: arg@arg1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gordon) Subject: Re: lpr/lpd and HP networked printers References: <19970923072533.UX58086@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew Gordon on Sep 23, 1997 12:46:13 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Gordon wrote: > If lpd is printing locally to a printer, it observes the "sh" capability > and overrides the "L" command. However, if it is printing to a remote > printer, it just transfers the control file unchanged and "sh" has > no affect whatever. Sure, lpd is not supposed to forward the sh capability across the net. (Actually, it doesn't forward many things.) Get a firmware upgrade, and you've got rid of them once and for all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)