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Reported by jdreed, 14 years ago.

According to Mark Manley, creating ~/.cups/lpoptions which contains

Options sides two-sided-long-edge

should work. So the dotfiles should be changed to do this for accounts with .generation >= 1. Evan notes that we should do something clever to ensure that it goes away if a user removes .generation.

Reported by jdreed, 14 years ago.

We need to inventory the WRW apps, and determine how they print. The goal is to figure out:

• If they use GTK or Java
• if they allow a user to specify a command line (and if so, is it lpr or lp)
• if they hardcode any paths to printing commands
• what their default output format is (PDF, PS, etc).
• anything else we think is relevant.

Going forward, we come up with a set of guidelines, and new 3partysw on Athena has to conform to those guidelines (maybe to the point where a program cannot be installed on Athena if it hardcodes /usr/bin/lp).

Note that this will be difficult, because we need to look at both the Ubuntu packages and any locker software.

If we encounter printing stupidity in Ubuntu packages, we should be sure to file a bug upstream.

Reported by jdreed, 14 years ago.

Rebooting an uncleanly shutdown reactivate-2 machine causes it to attempt to recover schroot sessions. Recovery fails because the directory /var/lib/schroot/union/overlay/login-{$uuid} does not exist, but it's still somewhat time consuming to do this on a slower (620, HP) machine. Can we skip this step, since presumably we never care about recovering schroot sessions on cluster machines?