Re: hp-sendfax error timeout
I would guess hplip creates the .hplib directory.
g.
Il Venerdì 22 Aprile 2016 11:09, Apostolos Kefalas <akef@freemail.gr> ha scritto:
The problem is I do not know against which package!!! Is it a problem of
hplip or cups who is spawning the python script??? which process is
creating .hplip???
BR
Apostolos
On Παρ, 2016-04-22 at 11:38 +0300, Apostolos Kefalas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the problem is the permission on /home/USER/.hplip
>
> I haven't managed to find who is creating this directory, but if I
> change the permissions of .hplip to 777, everything works fine.
>
> Having world read/write in my home dir is not something I like. So I
> found that changing the group ownership of .hplip to 'lp' solved the
> problem.
>
> Thanks
> Apostolos
>
> On Πεμ, 2016-04-21 at 12:51 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > first: this seems to be problem in unstable and testing too, so I would
> > open a bug report against hplib.
> >
> > However, looking at the code
> > http://sources.debian.net/src/hplip/3.16.3%2Brepack0-1/fax/backend/hpfax.py/?hl=266#L266
> >
> > if os.path.exists("/home/%s/.hplip"%username):
> > tmp_dir = "/home/%s/.hplip"%username
> > else:
> > tmp_dir = "/tmp"
> >
> > pipe_name = os.path.join(tmp_dir, "hp_fax-pipe-%d" % job_id)
> >
> > os.umask(0o111)
> > try:
> > os.mkfifo(pipe_name)
> > except OSError:
> > os.unlink(pipe_name)
> > os.mkfifo(pipe_name)
> >
> > you might just want to add some prints to see what is the value of tmp_dir, and maybe why the pipe_name can't be created
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Gianfranco
> >
>
>
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