I know that this has been mentioned here before, but can I *beg* that
redhat developers seriously and urgently consider either modifying
printtool to allow it to work with a text/curses interface on a
console or within an X term, or include a text-based (curses-based)
printer configuration tool that does the same things.
There should be NO pre-requisite that a box have a working X server
just to be able to configure its printers. Or anything else. (Which
is one of the few things that linuxconf does have going for it).
Perhaps linuxconf can be given an lpd configuration module that does
the same thing as printtool?
Long story cut short: I've just been through some incredible hoops
getting an otherwise not very complicated printer setup working on a
box that could not run X (video card problems), and to which I
could not get direct network xterm login access. I would have had
no problem at all if a terminal-based config tool had been available.
Talking of printers... once LPRng from rh7.0 is recompiled on a rh6.2
box, it goes in very nicely to replace the old lpr daemon. I have
administrative control over 35-odd samba networks with printer
services, and until I did this the problems they were having were
constant and painful. LPRng has transformed all that completely,
overnight - works exactly as advertised! Not to mention the added
functionality (eg, for samba, pause and delete now work!).
Thanks for making this change guys. (I'm puzzled why the rh62 updates
have kept with the older lpr package).
Cheers
Tony
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