Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>lpd fails to start on a read-only root filesystem system because
>it cannot create /dev/printer socket. There are two possible ways
>to fix this bug:
>1. To change the default location of the control socket, for example,
> to /var/run/printer, which is used in NetBSD.
>2. Add a new option for lpd that will allow to specify different
> location for this socket. In this case, anyone who uses a read-only
> filesystem will able to specify different location for this socket
> and make /dev/printer as a symbol link to this location.
>
>
I will look into making the changes as proposed in #2. I don't want to
change the default location of the lpd socket since one of the changelog
entries states (and changing default parameters without a good reason is
not good anyway),
lpr (1:0.46-1-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved socket back to /dev/printer after rereading the relevant
passage in the FHS
-- Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:37:01 -0800
Adam, do you know what passage you were talking about in 1999? :)
- Adam (the other one :)
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