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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