I've been doing a bit more testing on this...
> Slightly more information on this. There definitely seems to be
> some sort of problem with LPRng getting printcap info from a file.
Oops, that should have read "from a program".
A bit more information here...
Digging through the code a bit, I can see that the cause of this...
2004-03-24-15:38:32.443 pancakes Init_tempfile: bad tempdir '/var/spool/lpd/%P'
... is in Init_tempfile in linelist.c:
if( Is_server ){
if( dir == 0 ) dir = Spool_dir_DYN; <-----
if( dir == 0 ) dir = Server_tmp_dir_DYN;
} else {
dir = getenv( "LPR_TMP" );
if( dir == 0 ) dir = Default_tmp_dir_DYN;
}
So, 'dir' is being set to the value of Spool_dir_DYN, which has been
set to '/var/spool/lpd/%P', which obviously isn't a valid directory
name.
If I just comment out this line then LPRng seems to work OK with
getting data from a program, at least initially, but obviously this
isn't an ideal long-term solution.
Toby
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