On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:06:01PM -0600, Jared Burns wrote: > So my question is, is Xprt a commonly used print server? Does it make sense > to assume that people are running it? Also, are there more sensible choices > to be made (lpr, cups, etc.)? There are many MTAs out there, but, since most software assumes that it can send mail by calling /usr/bin/sendmail with certain parameters, most of them install either a symlink or a wrapper at /usr/bin/sendmail which accepts (some subset of) the same command-line options as sendmail does. The software can find sendmail and use it for outgoing mail and the admin doesn't have to deal with sendmail configuration if he doesn't want to, so everyone's happy. Printing is a little trickier, since there are two standard print systems, each with it's own front-end and syntax: AT&T's lp system and BSD's lpr equivalent. Other print systems are typically happy to emulate one or both of these interfaces. Either lp or lpr would be a sensible choice for a generic print system to expect; I don't know about *nix in general, but lpr seems to be more common in Linux-land. Even better would be to have a configuration directive which allows the admin to choose whichever he prefers (or to check for the existence of the relevant binaries and just use what's there). -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss