Re: apsfilter doesn't filter :-)

[Christian Ullrich <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Gerrit Kühn wrote on Wednesday, 2002-02-20:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:12:32PM +0100, Michael Loßin wrote:
> 
> > Then it's not an apsfilter problem -- your lpd is
> > slightly misconfigured (or you forgot to restart
> > the lpd daemon after setting up your printers).
> 
> The lpr manpage says that -Ff is the default setting (which I believed
> :-), but it obviously uses -Fl as default here; so explicitly stating

That rings a bell. You're not using an older SuSE Linux, are you?
I'm asking because in SuSE 7.3, they did just what you describe:
They changed the default format from f to l without telling anyone,
and they did it by patching the code, not in lpd.conf.

> lpr -Ff solved the problem. However, I still havn't found where to
> configure lpr to take -Ff as default (so I don't have to put it there
> every time I want to print something).

If your older LPRng has the lpd.conf file, it should suffice to add

default_format=f

in that file.

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