On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:54:51PM -0700, Joe Higgins wrote: > Background: > ----------- > I upgraded a P4 machine from Redhat 6.0 to 7.3 recently. > I added *all* packages during the upgrade. The upgrade > seemed to go without a hitch. > > I just connected a USB printer and ran printconf-gui which > set up the printer. (I had no printer connected with the > 6.0 installation.) > > No lpr/lpr/lpq/lpc commands exist in the installation. > > I was able to print using lpq.LPRng (after trying many lp* > commands).
RedHat 7.3 had added support for multiple printing and mail systems, so that you could install both LPRng and CUPS for printing, or sendmail and postfix for mail. And so the binaries are installed as lpr.LPRng, and then lpr is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/lp, which in turn is a symlink to the actual binary. Sounds a bit complicated, but it allows for clean support for multiple systems providing the same functionality. This system is managed by the "alternatives" program, which should have been installed on your system, and it should automatically create the necessary links in /etc/alternatives. If not, read the man page, and it should explain how you can use it. I haven't yet read the man page myself so I can't offer any more help. -- Anand Buddhdev Personal site: http://anand.org _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
