On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Dan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Should I do an "rpm -e" of lpr and printtool on RH Linux 6.0 prior to
> installation of LPRng,
> or would it be better to follow the manual removal mentioned in "2.10.
> Updating Print Spooler Software and Startup Scripts"
For LPRng on RedHat systems, I've found rpm to work well; I use the
following commands on RH 6 systems to install LPRng in full "dumb
client" mode:
# rpm -e lpr printtool rhs-printfilters
# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng/LPRng/LPRng-3.6.26-1.i386.rpm
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/lprng stop
# chkconfig --level 0123456 lprng off
And then copy a stock client printcap file into /etc, which spools all
jobs to the central print server with the force_localhost@ queue entry.
This works for small numbers of clients where printers and computers
don't change all that often (sane, scalable print queue names help).
For larger numbers of RH clients, you might want to create your own
LPRng RPM, with --disable-force_localhost, a different /etc/ dir on a
NFS share for the client printcap, alternate port and no suid, etc.
--
Jeremy Mates http://www.sial.org/
"You cannot control, only catch."
-- Tsung Tsai
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