On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the > /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the > FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using > the command line interface... > > I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc.. > forcing the use of the /usr/local/bin versions > but this would oblige me to do that again after every FreeSBD upgrade. > > Or I could put /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in the path. > Two questions: > - is this a save thing to do (won't other things go wrong then?) > - if OK to do that, where can I change the path for every user, whatever > shell (csh, sh, bash, tcsh, rbash) he uses?
Hi, Having installed CUPS only recently here's what helped me: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/article.html http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/cups_setup.html Make sure cups is fired up upon boot: /etc/make.conf: WITH_CUPS=YES CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes Make sure System lpr doesn't get built/installed when you build a new system/kernel: /etc/src.conf: WITHOUT_LPR=YES Replace system lpr-things with a link to the CUPS equivalents: cd /usr/bin for i in lp* ; do mv $i $i.freebsd-original ; ln -s /usr/local/bin/$i $i ; done Hope this helps, -ewald _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
