Re: problems with papd

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 03:51:45PM +0200, Moritz Kaiser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The entry in my /etc/netatalk/papd.conf follows:
> *snip*
> #
> #
> kyocera:\
>       :pr=lp2:op=lp:\
>       :pd=/usr/lib/ppd/KC170PEG.PPD:
> #
> #

For some reason papd doesn't like your papd.conf.  Are you sure that
there are no spaces after \ (i.e. at the end of the line)?  If you've
verified everything, try applying this patch to the source code.  Then
do "make clean; make; make install", start the atalk rc script and watch
the logs in /var/log.  The patch is against 2.1.4-37b, but it seems that
the code in question didn't change for years so it should work for
older/newer versions as well.

Dejan

--- etc/papd/printcap.c.orig    Fri May 30 02:27:35 1997
+++ etc/papd/printcap.c Mon May  8 01:50:04 2000
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <sys/syslog.h>
 #include <atalk/paths.h>
 
 #ifndef BUFSIZ
@@ -250,6 +251,7 @@
        while (*--p != ':')
                if (p<tbuf) {
                        write(2, "Bad termcap entry\n", 18);
+                       syslog(LOG_ERR, "error in <%s>", tbuf );
                        return (0);
                }
        p++;