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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2003 13:48:28 -0500
From:      stan <stanb@awod.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CUPS instalation question
Message-ID:  <20030208184828.GB3387@teddy.fas.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030208015943.GA9738@raggedclown.net>
References:  <20030207140217.GA1028@teddy.fas.com> <52270.63.104.35.130.1044627617.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20030208015943.GA9738@raggedclown.net>

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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:59:43AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:20:17AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> > stan said:
> > > I have a 47. STABLE system that I recently cvsup'd and did a make
> > > world. Now I;ve built cups-base, and cups-lpr from the ports.
> > >
> > > I'm able to send a test page  to a printer using the web
> > > interface, but I'm having trouble making things work from the
> > > command line, and I suspect that I have somehow gotten a mix of
> > > the lp* commands from the base system, and the ones from cups.
> > >
> > > What's the best way to make certain I have removed all traces of
> > > lp* from the base system? I've already altered /etc/make.conf to
> > > avoid building the base systems lp stuff in the future, but I
> > > don't think a new make world will _remove_ existing stuff, right?
> > >
> > I simply moved /usr/local/bin in front of /usr/bin on in my .profile
> > and .cshrc on all accounts on the server.  That's fixed it for me. 
> > (Note:  got this tip from FreeBSDDiary.org)
> 
> You might also want to change /etc/manpath.config's search order for the
> whereis/locate database, or remove the manual page entries for the old
> lpr system from /usr/share/man ...
> Otherwise "man lpr" will not give you the CUPS lpr man page ;)

Thanks for the reminder. I just did that.

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