Andreas Klemm on Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:33:52 +0100 (CET)


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Re: problem with apsfilter and abiword


On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:27:24AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote:
> > Thats odd ... what lineprinter spooler do you have installed ?
> > LPRng ?
> >
> > Can you read its docu, how to enable logging ?
> >
> > > I hope I have answered all you questions correctly.  It doesn't make
> > > sense to me.
> >
> > I need the debugging log ...
> > Although I assume its simply gs driver related ...
> >
> 
> Yes, I have lprng installed.

o.k., I don't know it, sorry.

> I don't know any more about how to enable logging.  I did what I thought would
> do it by editing the /usr/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter file to remove the #
> in front of
> set -x      to enable debugging.

This enables debugging in the apsfilter script.
The debugging messages are logged to stderr
Standard error is the directed to a logfile, which is configurable
by the :lf=/some/path: config statement in /etc/printcap.
But for some strange reason the stderr output won't be written to
the logfile ...
Double check the path ...
check the permissions of the spool directory itself
ls -ld directory
Send the output to the mailinglist ...

> I am running debian.  I will apt-get whatever lineprinter is necessary for
> this to work.  However, I remember that initially I had the standard lpr
> package installed and the same thing was happening then.  This was what led me
> to install lprng instead.

Well, if the above mentioned recommendations doesn't bring us any
further, any chance to install the standard lpd again ???
It should log without problems !

> It is a totally frustrating problem that doesn't make sense.

Run FreeBSD, you simply install the add on ports, thats it.
Never had permissions problems like that using it.

Thats another recommendation, but I'm sure here are people
listening that bash me concerning that statement ;-)))

Folks, I hope you have still some humour ;-))

> Thanks for your help.  I haven't given up yet.
>  But if you weren't helping me
> on this I think I would have by now.

What about asking on the Debian mailinglists (help or whatever)
why you doesn't get debugging output out of your lineprinter
input filter ?

They also have port maintainers for LPRng and apsfilter ...

	Andreas ///

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