On 2018-03-30, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: >> >> https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.config-printing.html >> >> Bug#187954. > > Yep, rebooting will recreate that file anyway, because /var/run is > just /run, and therefore ephemeral.
I was just blindly regurgitating the wiki (that dates from the fifties), which is probably a factor of aggravation rather than mitigation. Luckily a proviso is clearly written at the top of /etc/printcap, which I also failed to notice. Three strikes and you're out. > Cheers, > David. > > -- We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not. --Samuel Beckett
