On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Patrick Powell wrote: > lpd: the SERVER. Accepts connections (from TCP/IP port 515, or in the > next release, /dev/lprng <sigh...>), accepts requests and/or > jobs from lpr, lpq, lprm, and lpc, and does the requested action.
Perhaps I missed some part of the discussion about this (just joined the list a couple of days ago), and I see you've made the path to the socket an option to ./configure, but it might be nice to make the default location of the UNIX socket something in /var/run. The FHS (if you care about the FHS) demands that transient sockets go there. Even if you don't care about the FHS, there are a couple of good reasons. If lpd is going to automatically create the socket, then putting it in /var/run would make things work for people with / mounted read-only, and putting it in a subdir of /var/run would allow the socket to be created by a non-root-privileged daemon. I know there is some tradition of a /dev/printer, but I think NetBSD, for instance, puts the socket in /var/run now. If it's not going to be /dev/printer for compatibility, then it seems to me that it might as well be in /var/run. People can always make /dev/printer a symlink and retain the two advantages in the paragraph above. Not a huge issue, but I just thought I'd throw those thoughts in before the current default gets established. --Alan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
