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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu> Date: 22 Feb 2002 12:35:17 -0500 Subject: Re: PPR: ppr and lpr On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 06:30, Roques Didier wrote: > At 11:31 08/02/02 -0500, vous avez écrit: > >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. > > on two differents linux box (using mandrake 8.1), > one of these can run lpd and ppr at the same time (pprd and lpd) > on the other ppr runs ok but lpd fails (error is socket already in use) Mandrake 8.1 seems to use LPRng. It has a configuration file, /etc/lpd.conf in which you can change the port lpd listens on. I think the variable is lpd_port. If you do that, then lprsrv can run on one port and lpd can run on another.