cups lpr not executable after portupgrade

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Nov 22 06:47:08 PST 2004


On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:12:53AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:44:29PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>after a cvsup and portupgrade -a  cups didn't work anymore.
> >>
> >>After setting /usr/local/bin/lp
> >>			     lpq
> >>                             lpr
> >>                             lprm
>          and 		     lpstat
> >>
> >>to r-xr-xr-x everything was fine again.
> >>
> >>Is this a bug or a feature?
> >
> >It's supposed to chmod 0 the /usr/bin versions of these.  Did you
> >perhaps replace these files with a symlink during a previous attempt
> >to get the cups-lpr port to work?
> I see.
> 
> Last year, or so, I set links from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin as 
> was recommended in some howto. I guess I can delete them now?
> (I have got
> 	CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes
> 	NO_LPR=yes
>  in my /etc/make.conf )

Yes, they should not be required providing your PATH is set correctly
(/usr/local/bin before /usr/bin).

Kris
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