[cups.general] Re: PDF backend questions... Really long.. :-/

Glenn E. Sieb ges at lumeta.com
Tue May 11 15:07:18 PDT 2004


> Maybe it wont help you but I have few remarks on PDF backend.
> - I had to change shell from sh to bash. My sh wasnt able to
> handle substitutions (like ${3//[^[:alnum:]]/_} ). I am not
> shell-scripting-guru so I dont know if this is normal or it
> is some bug in sh in freebsd ( even recompiling sh doesnt
> help ). Bash is working so I dont bother about that anymore :-).
> 
> - I had to add /usr/local/bin to PATH variable (ps2pdf is
> script too so it needs to know path to other executables
> and/or scripts)

Thanks Pavel (got the other email too)--that got rid of the substition error.. Now it doesn't appear to be writing to the directory.. (which is chmod 777 and owned by "nobody").. I'll figure it out :)

Thanks!
Glenn

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Glenn E. Sieb
System Administrator
Lumeta Corporation
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