Printing

[Net Llama!]

On 08/13/03 17:28, Joel Hammer wrote:

> As I recall, with redhat( 7.2 ?), out of the box, there was a big
> warning in printcap to make no changes in the printcap file, since it
> was generated fresh every time something started up, I think the system
> or the printing daemon. I think that the configuration program ran
> automatically. You weren't given a choice about it. I had to manually
> disable the thing.
> 
> That is the sort of messing around I just won't tolerate. It makes a
> linux distro incompatible with every other version of linux. It makes
> offering good, generic advice impossible. It makes life miserable for
> newbies. It frustrates experienced users, who are asked yet again to
> master some obscure but crucial details of an important but difficult
> subsystem like printing, one that they thought they had under control.
> 
> Just one reason why I stopped using Redhat.

I never ran into anything like when using RH-7.2.  THe *only* mention i see 
in the RH-7.2 release notes of anything remotely close to what you're 
describing is:
The printconf-tui program can clear settings completely. For example:
printconf-tui --Xclear

Unless you've got a documented source for this behavior, please don't start 
FUD.

> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:44:56PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>On 08/13/03 16:38, Joel Hammer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Be careful. Some of the more advanced printing programs like to overwrite
>>>your manual printcap file from time to time. Redhat would do that,
>>>as I recall.
>>
>>No it didn't, unless of course you ran redhat-print-config.  Of course if 
>>you're running redhat-print-config, it has to overwrite your printcap or 
>>there'd be no point in running it.


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