>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? >/etc/profile, /etc/csh.* start-up files are shell-specific and as yet >distributed, only contain outcommented information, yet a newly created user >(whether using csh of bash) has a following path / PATH set up: >/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin >Where is this path/PATH being set i.e. where can it be altered? If I recall correct you can you use the following in /etc/make.conf CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE= yes Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1940 - Release Date: 02/08/09 17:57:00 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
