From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 23 21:15:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06432 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:15:03 -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 VAA06405 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA14130; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:42:50 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707240412.NAA14130@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: lpr/lpd changes In-Reply-To: <199707240408.VAA20696@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at "Jul 23, 97 09:08:07 pm" To: mrm@Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:42:49 +0930 (CST) Cc: imp@rover.village.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, tom@uniserve.com 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 M.R.Murphy stands accused of saying: > > > > 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. > > > > Is this a good idea given the current defined behavior of lpc (say > WRT start). Um. I'm tempted to suggest that 'lpr' should know how to start the daemon too, but in reality this is likely to upset someone that's used to killing the daemon to temporarily prevent printing. > I think it's not broke, and don't fix it :-) If somebody doesn't > want to start lpd, let 'em decide not to do so and change their > configuration files appropriately. That's fair enough too. -- ]] 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 [[