* Ted Unangst wrote: > wondering why things stopped working after an upgrade, it took me a > little while to remember that lpr was overwritten. but then it took a > while longer to find cups-enable, even after I remembered that I > needed to run it, because it's not cupsenable, which is the only one > that shows up when I type cups[tab]. I spent a good amount of time > trying to find a program with a name just like cupsenable but that > wasn't cupsenable. > > Why is cups-enable installed only runnable by root? It's harder to > find this way. And why can't a normal user even read it? It already > checks that you're root before doing anything, and we have tons of > things that aren't useful to users but are still runnable. > > It's also not mentioned by pkg_info as something of interest. It > should be, right?
Your are wrong. When you install CUPS, a message is displayed. That message can be redisplayed at any time using 'pkg_info -M cups'. > While on the subject, the lpd.pre-cups test is a little broken. I had > my old lpd backed up (pre-upgrade). Now the 4.4 tools are gone, and > the backups are from 4.3 or whenever. -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ "In God we trust, in C we code."
