From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 23 19:17:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00903 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca (ppp6443.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.208.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00893 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA18643; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:16:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:16:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Warner Losh cc: Tom , current@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@klemm.gtn.com Subject: Re: lpr/lpd changes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Tom writes: > : It might not be worth the effort. Configuring lpd can be complex, and > : make require additional packages (ex. ghostscript, and apsfilter) to be > : useful. Anyone who gets through the process should have much trouble > : turning the NO to YES in rc.conf (or is is ON and OFF now?). > > You have a point. > > OK. Can we turn this off by default and then have people turn it on While configuring lpd may be complex, one still only has to install apsfilter and, if one answers all the questions right, one's set. This is not an objection to having lpd off by default, but a suggestion that apsfilter be feeped a little bit more to ask "lpd is currently disabled in /etc/rc.conf. Do you want to enable it? [Y/N]" -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.