Dmitry Potapov wrote: >lpd fails to start on a read-only root filesystem system because >it cannot create /dev/printer socket. There are two possible ways >to fix this bug: >1. To change the default location of the control socket, for example, > to /var/run/printer, which is used in NetBSD. >2. Add a new option for lpd that will allow to specify different > location for this socket. In this case, anyone who uses a read-only > filesystem will able to specify different location for this socket > and make /dev/printer as a symbol link to this location. > >
I will look into making the changes as proposed in #2. I don't want to change the default location of the lpd socket since one of the changelog entries states (and changing default parameters without a good reason is not good anyway), lpr (1:0.46-1-3) unstable; urgency=low * Moved socket back to /dev/printer after rereading the relevant passage in the FHS -- Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:37:01 -0800 Adam, do you know what passage you were talking about in 1999? :) - Adam (the other one :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]