Re: lpr changes between 6 - 6.1

[AlphaByte <abyte alphabyte co nz>]

Well, Steve, you could try to the alias routine that got me through. Add lp to
your aliases in printcap -- unless you already have it there of course.

Alan

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:
> We have several dozen linux boxes that were upgraded from Redhat 6 to
> 6.1. After the upgrade printing was broken. We print to LPRng on a
> solaris 5.6 box.
> 
> The only solution I could find was to "downgrade" to the Redhat 6 version
> of lpr.
> 
> Is this a known problem? Any other ideas of how to deal with this
> problem? I don't particularly like to use older versions of software if it
> can be avoided.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Steve Feehan
> 

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