--- Rainer Stahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sam, > > i can confirm Chad's good experiences with the switch-printer mechanism. > Unfortunately, RH ES3 doesn't ship any more with redhat-switch-printer > :_S. So this is no out-of-the-box choice any more. We also (have to) > switch from RH9 to RH-ES3, and I miss LPRng, too..
We are still on RH 7.3, yet this is mostly a print server. so we don't feel the urge go for the ES version. curious that has anyone tried what progeny.com is offering ? > And at least, i would appreciate the RedHat people to include LPRng > again... I don't understand why the Fedora project, which is considered > the "free" developing platfom, is not interested in supporting > _different_ systems. It's the same as they would include just one MTA, > web-browser, shell, etc. Nobody would consider having the (no-)choice of > just one window manager system. > > Anyway, it can be done manually of course, and Lprng can be installed > parallel to CUPS somehow. But in my opionion, it cannot be the sense of > a distribution to "force" the people to one special flavour of service > daemon. (As we have seen whith Chad's experience, it's quite tricky to > get rid of CUPS..) > speaking without experience ES, however, i am OK as long as they don't make install and enable LPRng miserable. I felt annoied when Freebsd current stopped shipping perl. but again, 4.x only ship with Perl 5.0 ;^( Qiang ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
