Printing with java under FreeBSD - CUPS symlinks

[Kurt Miller]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 1:47 am, Virgil Champlin wrote:
> This bit me on a couple of hosts with the 1.2.x upgrade which removes
> print/cups-lpd.  So I took a look in
> /usr/ports/print/cups-base/pkg-install.  The post install operation
> "unshades" the /usr/local/bin versions of lp*  by clearing the mode bits
> on the /usr/bin copies (chmod -h 0 ...).

The cups change assumes that all applications that use lpr search
the path for it. It is not a valid assumption IMHO.

It is not a valid approach for java. The jdk expects /usr/bin/lpr
to just work. It doesn't search the path for lpr.

> It no longer moves them out of 
> the way and replaces them with symlinks.  It also does it only if you
> have CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE defined.  CUPS 1.2.x has been a real pain but
> for other reasons.  -virgil