> Changing which mode is checked won't help you because security(8)
> also complains that printcap(5) is a symlink rather than the expected
> regular file.  So you would still et spammed.
> 
> Antoine, is it normal that CUPS replaces /etc/printcap with a symlink?

Yes it is.

> Any idea how to prevent people from getting spammed about that?
> If we had an idea, we could explain it in README-main, which is
> already quite good in many other respects.

Dunno and it's been years since I haven't read dail(8)/security(8) emails (ever 
since I put an '*' in hosts.lpd).
Maybe we can relax the printcap check a bit?

-- 
Antoine

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