Subject: misc/8551: /var/spool/lpd vs /var/spool/output
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 01/19/2000 12:26:34
Looking at this further, the lpr tools default to using
/var/spool/output, leaving /var/spool/lpd unused, though all
the entries in /etc/printcap explicitly specify sd=, so it
probably does not matter in practice.
I think we should convert all lpr paths to one of /var/spool/lpd
or /var/spool/output and nuke the other.
Keeping /var/spool/lpd means changing more, but it is what
I've seen other systems use, and its more consistent.
Thoughts?
David/absolute
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Use /var/spool/lpd/XXX as pool directory, not /var/spool/output/XXX
> > Intended to address PR #8551
>
> I wonder if we should remove /var/spool/output from the
> etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist file? Is this directory used by anything else?