tag 305951 + wontfix
thanks
>From devices.txt file in Linux directory,
Sockets and pipes
Non-transient sockets and named pipes may exist in /dev. Common entries are:
/dev/printer socket lpd local socket
/dev/log socket syslog local socket
/dev/gpmdata socket gpm mouse multiplexer
So /dev should not be read-only. You can have it on a tmp file system
or something, but if you require printing, it should not be read-only.
I cannot modify lpd to set the socket elsewhere because lpr/lpq/lprm
et al. rely on the socket to be /dev/printer. lpr doesn't use config
files, only switches so it is to leave socket patch as a compile time
option. If you wish to change it, you can just change it in
common_source/pathnames.h
and then recompile lpr with `fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage`. The package
is very small and doesn't have any build depends so this should be
trivial.
- Adam
