Is there an alternate method of remote printing?
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Jun 1 04:07:33 AEST 1989
>Whoah! How about /etc/hosts.lpd? Did someone at SUN remove this
>nice feature?
Well, I don't know of any company named SUN, although there may be one;
however, since Sun, not SUN, is the company that does SunOS, it doesn't
matter. Nobody at Sun took out "/etc/hosts.lpd"; at least in the 4.0
LPD(8), it says:
OPERATION
Access Control
Access control is provided by two means. First, all
requests must come from one of the machines listed in either
the file /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd. Second, if the
rs capability is specified in the printcap entry, lpr(1)
requests are only be honored for users with accounts on the
printer host.
and the 4.0 "lp*" code is basically the 4.3BSD code, with assorted
tweaks such as the "ms" capability, which takes a string argument that's
a bunch of "stty"-style option settings specifying the mode to set the
serial port for the printer to, and changes to use "statfs" to find out
how much space is left on a file system rather than pawing through the
superblock....
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