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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu>
Date: 08 Feb 2002 11:31:06 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: ppr and lpr

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 06:36, Olivier Tharan wrote:
> * Roques Didier <roques@brive.unilim.fr> (20020204 08:37):
> > Is it possible to run both ppr and lpr on the same linux machine?
> > Do they use the same port ?
> 
> I think you can use both. See also 'uprint' which is a convenient way of
> keeping your lpr commands and letting them use the PPR spooling system.
> 
> olive

Both spoolers can run at the same time.  However if you try to start up
PPR's lpr server (so that PPR can server remote lpr clients), you will
have problems such stock lpr dies if it can't bind to the lpr port.

The lpd man page says that you can change the port it runs on, but this
is unimplemented in the actual code.  It would be nice if this were
patched in the major Linux distributions.