| Andreas Klemm on Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:01:14 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: Apsfilter 6.1.1 - praise and advice |
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:01:19AM +0200, Zdenko Dolar wrote:
> Hi!
> I do not have words to thank you for that excellent utility!
> I have Slackware Linux 8.0 with BSD printing system and installed printer on
> my windows 2000.
> The printer is HP DeskJet 720C.
> Your utility helped me to configure my Linux machine to print to that
> printer through SAMBA.
> I had some trouble to complete the configuration as your Apsfilter did only
> a part of the configuration.
What apsfilter or is it a modified apsfilter. You mention perl.
In fact our apsfilter is a shell script.
Do you REALLY use apsfilter 6.1.1 ??? Or what ?
> The missing parts are:
> 1. what had to be added to printcap after line '# APS1_END and all other
> regarding network printing:
The begin and end statements should only mark begin and end
of a printer statement and was intended to help apsfilter to
manage printcap entries in the future ....
See it as cosmetic entries ...
Behind the end label you may start adding more printers.
If you like via SETUP (apsfilter) or by hand ...
The functionality of printcap doesn't change even if you
use apsfilter ...
In former times apsfilter needed an APS_BASE declaration to find
its home ... but we got rid of that for a long time ...
In short, I don't understand your statement. It sounds you have
to read the friendly manual, what printcap(5) is for and what
format it has ...
> 2. added additional directory in /var/spool/lpd for remote printer and copy
> of log & acct files to it.
apsfilters SETUP utility already installs printer with proper permissions.
It sounds here as if you don't speak about apsfilter ....
again what version of apsfilter do you use ?
If I remember right somebody told me about a slackware still using
the very very old 4.9.x if so PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DO AN UPGRADE
AND KICK Patrick into its best part of his body ;-)
Well maybe he forgot to upgrade long time ago ;-)
> 3. creating correct lpr.conf and copy to both /var/spool/lpd subdirectories
> crated by Apsfilter.
The new apsfilter has a different concept ...
We now have something like /etc/apsfilter or /usr/local/etc/apsfilter
for config files ...
You have an old version ...
> 4. correct the permissions for files smbclient.conf in
> /etc/apsfilter/$PRINTER$
In newer versions permissions are fixed .....
> For the missing part I thank for
> http://www.slackware.com/forum/read.php?f=2&i=107844&t=107779
> (COLIN Stephane, scolin@planetepc.fr)
I think I can skip this one since you are using a very old version
of apsfilter ...
> To finally complete the configuration (and guess some parameters) I
> contacted the address above and the answer:
> >Hi !
> >
> >I think you have read my response for your 1st mail, so the way i have
> >find the tips for remote printing with regular BSD lpd daemon (like
> >slackware and many unix's) was spending 1 night to debug the perl script
^^^^^^
> >of apsfilter :-) ... I have noticed the author of apsfilter about the
> >lack of documentation about this configuration ...
Debian had an old "hacked" apsfilter re-written in perl ...
Well if its a perl script then I doubt that it is the real apsfilter.
PLEASE CHECK VERSIONS before complaining, everything other is silly
and a WASTE OF TIME.
Well boys, we have internet now and I assume you have the time
to take 5 minutes to check versions and such ....
> I ageree that comment, that yor documentation of apsfilter ought to include
> the missing part.
My experience is, that slackwares print system tended to be behind
the others concerning directories permissions, etc ... There always
was something broken...
If all other Linux users (and I regard Red Hat, SuSE and Debian as
the major Linux releases) had no problem, Slackware came around with
an issue.
> I belive that in the future you will include missing parts in your script to
> complete the configuration of BSD printing system.
See my comments above...
Andreas ///
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