Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:53:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> 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. >> > > Perhaps its only my impression, but isn't CUPS a rather large > sledgehammer? I don't personally believe so. I find the additional functionality and ease of administration to be advantageous. > Is everything cups now? As in, is all the development and maintenance > happening to cups rather than to LPRng, apsfilter, et-al? LPRng is certainly maintained, but apsfilter is not. As an example, support for Gimp-Print/Gutenprint is totally broken for two years now http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323407 In the last two years, there has also been no upstream development, unless you count the addition of the ability to use apsfilter as an MP3 jukebox... There hasn't been any actual printing development there for quite a long time, bar a few tiny bugfixes. > Right now, for a spooler, I'm using good-ol lpd. At least it should be > well maintained since its still the standard print spooler on OpenBSD. > Since they're so licence-concious (BSD slant vs the GPL slant of > Debian), I asked what BSD filter programs there are: none. You can use Foomatic. This is pretty good, and will replace apsfilter/magicfilter. However, it is somewhat arcane to get up and running initially. If you were to continue with lpd, this would be my recommendation. > So if all the focus, maintenance, support, etc is on CUPS, I guess I'll > go with cups. This is IMO the easiest route, and will certainly be the most well supported, but LPRng is still a valid alternative. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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