CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Fri Sep 5 12:00:49 PDT 2003


Mark Terribile wrote:

> 
> 
>> ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to
>> do to get the cups port/package working properly
>> under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be
>> necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.)
> 
> Ah, yes.  I think I forgot to add that I had to
> change the  lpd_program  variable in  /etc/rc.conf :
> 
> /etc/rc.conf:lpd_program="/usr/local/sbin/cupsd"
>  # path to lpd, if you want a different one.
> 
> This is a 4.6 system upgraded to 4.7 .

Hmmm... wouldn't running `/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd.sh start`
at boot time do the same thing? Stuff in the rc.d directories
runs automatically at boot time.

Or is the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory new since FreeBSD 4.7?

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