Problem in printing from LPD - Solved

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Jun 15 10:27:32 PDT 2005


Suresh wrote:
> I found the solution for LPD printing issue. The solution is that the
> CUPS requires tmp folder in /var/ directory. i.e /var/tmp/ folder
> should be needed by CUPS to handle LPD print requests. In my embedded
> product,the /var/tmp/ folder was not present. LPRng does not require
> the presence of this folder.  I don't know the exact description of
> the solution. I am undergoing study on this solution. Once i found
> the logical result i will mail to this forum.

Set the TMPDIR environment variable to point to a different directory.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




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