As a matter of policy, I suggest that you do NOT put your
executables (or links to them) in the spool directory, but
instead reference them directly in the printcap.
This actually removes one level of indirection and will make your
life MUCH more pleasant when trying to find problems.
Other than less pain, agony, and cursing as you try to find
out where the real executable is, there is not much reason not
to put the links there... except being the nasty person I am,
I wrote checkpc to enforce my facist notions of security...
Sigh...
You might also like to look at:
So you can simply do:
ps|zytops:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P:\
:filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/psif:\
:lf=log:\
:sh:mx=0:
Note that this will make sure that if you move / rename the spool
queue that it will get created with a unique name.
Patrick ("Thanks") Powell
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>
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 10 04:26:57 2001
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eckhard =?iso-8859-1?q?R=FCggeberg?=)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: checkpc(8) bug
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:27:47 +0100
>
> Hi,
>
> I found your name in the checkpc(8) man page, so I dare to send you a
> bug (?) report of that program.
>
> I have (for several years now) a printcap entry
>
> # PostScript Printer Zyto (Canon BJ 240)
> ps|zytops:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lp-zytops:\
> :if=/var/spool/lp-zytops/psif:lf=/var/spool/lp-zytops/pslf:\
> :sh:mx=0:
>
> What the input filter does is irrelevant, the problem is that I am used to
> having everything together in the printer's spool directory. But now I
> installed SuSE 7.3 on the server, which uses LPRng as default printing
> system. And their /etc/init.d/lpd calls "checkpc -af" first, which doesn't
> behave well in this situation:
>
> zyto:/var/spool # checkpc -f
> Warning - permissions of 'psif' are 0700, not 0600
> Warning - 'if' filter '/var/spool/lp-zytops/psif' does not have execute perms
>
> Firstly, it complains about /var/spool/lp-zytops/psif having the "wrong"
> permissions, fixes this "problem" and then complains about the input filter
> not being executable, but does _not_ fix this problem. Result: Before calling
> checkpc I could print, after calling it I can't.
>
> The intention of checkpc is other way round: If I cannot print for some
> reason or the other, I should be able to after invoking checkps -f
>
> The solution for me is to remove the spurious call of checkps in
> /etc/init.d/lpd ....
>
> Eckhard R�ggeberg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> - Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk ??
>
>
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