On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:53:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to get apsfilter setup to work on my PII box. Everything > > works from the apsfilterconfig program run by root but I get this when I > > try to print with > > > > lpr -Pibmoki [filename] > > > > Either as root or myself. > > > > I have pam-tmpdir installed that sets up per-user $TMP , > > i.e. root has TMP=/tmp/user/0 > > > > I'm assuming that this has something to do with it. Whatever user the > > lpd is running as is ending up with root's $TMPDIR > > > > Any ideas? > > apsfilter is fairly old and unmaintained. Is there any reason not to > use CUPS with the cupsys-driver-gutenprint, hplip or Foomatic drivers? > > If you have to use apsfilter (though there are alteratives available), > I would suggest first filing a bug report, or contacting the > maintainer. >
Perhaps its only my impression, but isn't CUPS a rather large sledgehammer? Is everything cups now? As in, is all the development and maintenance happening to cups rather than to LPRng, apsfilter, et-al? Right now, for a spooler, I'm using good-ol lpd. At least it should be well maintained since its still the standard print spooler on OpenBSD. Since they're so licence-concious (BSD slant vs the GPL slant of Debian), I asked what BSD filter programs there are: none. So if all the focus, maintenance, support, etc is on CUPS, I guess I'll go with cups. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
