a) the configured default printer entry might turn out to become a security hole
Although lpd isn't enabled by default in FreeBSD 4 and later versions
bad things might happen because of a simple copy and paste failure:
- fill up root-fs, if /dev/lpt0 doesn't exist
- fill up the spool dir (either root-fs or var-fs) if machine hadn't been
designed as print server
Therefore best decision: if people want printing, then configure both
1. /etc/rc.conf
2. /etc/printcap
the default entry wouldn't have served well all tastes and needs anyway...
design of most of our config files is, to have commented out suggestions
if a service is not active.
b) [Garance]
fix old and wrong documentation:
input filters are possible even if you print to a remote printer
this makes FreeBSDs implementation of lpd currently the best without
having to switch to port monster LPRng ...
c) fix pointer to wrong handbook section for a longer time .. so I doesn't fix the number
I'm only referring to the printing section, otherwise this would have to be fixed several
times, if the chapters should be reordered again ...
d) typo: chose -> choose
Submitted by: me and some suggestions by Garance
Approved by: Eivind and Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> in private e-mail
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