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Re: apsfilter: error creating directory for temporary files



Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

> I'm trying to get apsfilter setup to work on my PII box.  Everything
> works from the apsfilterconfig program run by root but I get this when I
> try to print with 
> 	
> 	lpr -Pibmoki [filename]
>
> Either as root or myself.
>
> I have pam-tmpdir installed that sets up per-user $TMP , 
>  i.e. root has TMP=/tmp/user/0
>
> I'm assuming that this has something to do with it.  Whatever user the
> lpd is running as is ending up with root's $TMPDIR
>
> Any ideas?

apsfilter is fairly old and unmaintained.  Is there any reason not to
use CUPS with the cupsys-driver-gutenprint, hplip or Foomatic drivers?

If you have to use apsfilter (though there are alteratives available),
I would suggest first filing a bug report, or contacting the
maintainer.


Regards,
Roger

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