Printing and Backups on the SGI
David Wood
wood at acf4.NYU.EDU
Sat May 20 07:39:00 AEST 1989
Yes, I've ported the bsd lpr to a 40/70GT running 3.1B.
It took me a two or three days to do, it took me that long to
figure out what exactly was missing. With a little help it
should take a day or two. Somewhere a symbol is being
redefined, I believe SGI has a problem with some of
their include files being reincluded, but that isn't
too hard to deal with. Here's what I had to do
as best as I can reconstruct. (I didn't do this with
diff/patch because I'm sure everyones' lpr is hacked up
differently). Because of licencing I shouldn't
be more specific than this. Good Luck - david
Files that need changing...
<bsd/exec.h> <bsd/sys/un.h> /* Add to file system */
<bsd/sys/ioctl.h>
lp.h
lpd.c lpr.c printjob.c startdaemon.c
What to do in general...
1) SGI does not support UNIX sockets, so change
all UNIX sockets to INET sockets.
ifdef out any code for UNIX sockets.
2) Get copies of exec.h and un.h and put them in
/usr/include/bsd/exec.h
/usr/include/bsd/sys/un.h
3) chown by name is not supported, use fchown
lookout for argument changes
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