Subject: misc/8551: /var/spool/lpd vs /var/spool/output
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 01/19/2000 12:26:34
	Looking at this further, the lpr tools default to using
	/var/spool/output, leaving /var/spool/lpd unused, though all
	the entries in /etc/printcap explicitly specify sd=, so it
	probably does not matter in practice.

	I think we should convert all lpr paths to one of /var/spool/lpd
	or /var/spool/output and nuke the other.

	Keeping /var/spool/lpd means changing more, but it is what
	I've seen other systems use, and its more consistent.

	Thoughts?

		David/absolute

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Use /var/spool/lpd/XXX as pool directory, not /var/spool/output/XXX
> > Intended to address PR #8551
> 
> I wonder if we should remove /var/spool/output from the
> etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist file? Is this directory used by anything else?