/usr/bin/lpr and /usr/local/bin/lpr
Heinrich Rebehn
rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de
Thu May 19 00:14:47 PDT 2005
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but i could not find an answer in handbook,
ml-archive or google:
I have three printing systems installed on my FreeBSD-5.3 system:
- FreeBSD lpr
- LPRng
- cups-lpr
The fact that LPRng and cups-lpr install the lpr binary in the same
place is not the problem here. :-)
What can become annoying is that there are two lpr binaries in PATH:
/usr/bin/lpr and /usr/local/bin/lpr. Depending on your PATH you get one
or the other.
Renaming /usr/bin/lpr to lpr.old only helps until the next "make world"
creates a new /usr/bin/lpr.
Is there a solution that is independent of PATH and
"make world"-resistent? Maybe remove the old BSD lpr from the base
system into a package that one may install or not?
Or is there a way to keep "make world" from installing certain binaries
(which, in turn, would have to be "cvs update"-resistent?)
Thanks for any thoughts,
Heinrich
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