CUPS, Alpine, and printserving
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Nov 1 17:43:22 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 17:34 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:26:06 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> > Beartooth wrote:
> >> On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:40:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >>> Isn't it easier just to say
> >>> telnet 192.168.a.b 631
> >>> Doesn't this tell you if you are connected to the CUPS server much
> >>> more simply?
> >>
> >> I take care not to install telnet, or to remove it if anaconda
> >> installs it.
> >>
> > The telnet client is handy to have. The telnet server is the one you
> > would normally want to remove.
>
> Apps like pirut and the packagekit give me only a single choice,
> telnet or no telnet, without any indication of role; and rpm -q says "not
> installed." So I had supposed, absent any indication to the contrary,
> that it was a single package, comprising if not functioning as both a
> server and a client -- and nobody ever told me "Get rid of telnet
> server," but simply "Get rid of telnet." Also, if I plug the numbers in
> to "telnet 192.168.a.b 631" I get an error saying "command not found."
>
> If I try "yum install telnet-client" or "...telnet_client," or
> "...telnetclient," I get a message saying no such package is available.
>
> If I put a space between the words, as if telnet and client were
> two apps, it tells me client is not available, and offers to install
> telnet -- one unitary thing.
>
> How then can you get a client without a server? If I let yum
> install this one thing, is there then (only then) a way to split it and
> get rid of half? Remember I neither have nor am likely to acquire the
> savvy to handle electronic attacks.
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telnet.i386 : The client program for the telnet remote login protocol.
telnet-server.i386 : The server program for the telnet remote login
protocol.
Craig
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