From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 11:31:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE8A37BEA3 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA282728; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:31:20 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <200007142139.RAA88779@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:32:18 -0400 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:09 AM -0400 7/15/00, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here >proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER >environment variable to something like > > PRINTER=queuename@spooler.do.main > >louie For what it's worth, I think that feature is a little too helpful, and I would not want that ability on our (RPI) public unix workstations. I do want some capability to specify a hostname, but not a wide-open capability to specify any hostname. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message