From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 23 20:35:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04910 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04905 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA13866; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:04:08 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707240334.NAA13866@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: lpr/lpd changes In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Jul 23, 97 06:43:10 pm" To: imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:04:08 +0930 (CST) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > In message Tom writes: > : Unrelated: why on earth is lpd started by the default rc* stuff? Seems > : unwise to fire up something that needs to be configured to be useful > : first. > > That's a good question. would it make sense to have a grep for ^lp in > /etc/printcap before starting it? Or at least for lines not being > blank and not starting with #. No. The only behaviour that makes any sense is for lpd itself to exit with a diagnostic if no printers are defined; there is no point in trying to teach something else about a private configuration file. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[