cups ppd files

[Markku Kolkka]

Timothy Murphy kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 27. 
elokuuta 2006 02:56):
> >>I see I have _two_ versions of system-config-printer
> >>on my laptop, in /usr/bin (which takes priority) and
> >> /usr/sbin : -----------------------------------
> >>[tim at elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls `which system-config-printer`
> >>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 23 13:10
> >> /usr/bin/system-config-printer -> consolehelper
> >>[tim at elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls /usr/sbin/system-config-printer
> >>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 23 13:10
> >> /usr/sbin/system-config-printer -> printconf
>
> Whatever they do, it is crazy to have two different programs
> with the same name.

There's just one program, "printconf", and a bunch of symbolic 
links to it. If you go through the symlinks in /usr/bin/, the 
consolehelper program will ask you the root password before 
running printconf as root.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi