Built-in lpr vs CUPS

Rob stopspam at users.sourceforge.net
Sat May 8 20:35:43 PDT 2004


Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2004-05-08T16:55:54Z, Kai Grossjohann <kai at emptydomain.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>The default setup is to include /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in $PATH.
>>This means that entering "lpr -Pfoo" doesn't work for printing on my
>>machine, I have to say "/usr/local/bin/lpr -Pfoo".
> 
> 
> Is there any reason you can't delete /usr/bin/lp* and related stuff?  I
> don't have lpr installed at all on my server.

How about this in /etc/make.conf:

  CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes
  NO_LPR=yes

that will give directions to the cups port and the make world process.

Rob.




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