I solved my pdf printing problem by trying to log the output of ps2pdf. As soon as I redirected the output of ps2pdf, the files started printing just fine! Can anyone pick why?!?!?
#!/bin/sh # Simple script to convert a specified postscript file into a PDF document # and place it in a location that is shared by the Samba server. # # Arguments: # 1st - The name of the spool file # # John Bright, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # We will create the pdf into a temporary file based upon the current date and time. # After we are finished, we'll rename it to a file with the same date, but ending # in .pdf. We do this because if a user tries to open a PDF that is still being written, # they will get a message that it is corrupt, when it is actually just not done yet. DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S` # Directory in which to place the output # Be sure this directory exists and is writable by the user that Samba # is running as (for example, the nobody user) OUTDIR=/var/spool/pdfdropbox ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp >/tmp/pdfprint.log mv $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp $OUTDIR/$DATE.pdf rm $1 -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. - Simone Weil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
