On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:26:35PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:32:31 -0300 (BRT) > > Frank Hrebabetzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am I missing something fundamental, or lpd simply doesn't work? > > > > lpd certainly does work. I don't know printtool though. You can `prove > > that, tracing it down. E.g., if you replace if=XX by a script coping > > the file to /tmp, you can see that any script at that spot actually is > > called, etc. > > Well I am not very familiar with those things. I could write down a script > line which copies a file somewhere, but I don't know _what_ to copy. Could > you give me a hint? >
The filter receives the data to filter on stdin. It also get passed a lot of command line args, for things like user, job name, print queue etc which should be listed in the docs. A script which does "cat > /tmp/is-lpd-working" should prove the filter is being called. Don't forget to get lpd to re-read /etc/printcap when you change it though. You can also test the original filter that you are having problems with by piping your test data to it from a command line, but you will need to make sure you give it the correct arguments and environment variables that it is expecting. -- .''`. Jason Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : Registered linux user #271693 `. `'` `- http://www.debian.org/ - The Universal Operating System
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