Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:41:50 +0100 From: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS, initial PATH environment Message-ID: <20090210154150.GB16526@aurora.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0902091345490.7603@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0902091345490.7603@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > If one installs CUPS as the printing system, one must use the > /usr/local/bin versions of lp, lpr, lpq and lprm instead of the > FreeBSD versions in /usr/bin, otherwise you get errors when using > the command line interface... > > I could rename /usr/bin/lp, lpr, lpq, lprm to e.g. lp.origfreebsd, etc.. > forcing the use of the /usr/local/bin versions > but this would oblige me to do that again after every FreeSBD upgrade. > > Or I could put /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in the path. > Two questions: > - is this a save thing to do (won't other things go wrong then?) > - if OK to do that, where can I change the path for every user, whatever > shell (csh, sh, bash, tcsh, rbash) he uses? Hi, Having installed CUPS only recently here's what helped me: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/cups/article.html http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/cups_setup.html Make sure cups is fired up upon boot: /etc/make.conf: WITH_CUPS=YES CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes Make sure System lpr doesn't get built/installed when you build a new system/kernel: /etc/src.conf: WITHOUT_LPR=YES Replace system lpr-things with a link to the CUPS equivalents: cd /usr/bin for i in lp* ; do mv $i $i.freebsd-original ; ln -s /usr/local/bin/$i $i ; done Hope this helps, -ewald
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