Problem in printing from LPD - Solved

Suresh accetsuresh at rediffmail.com
Tue Jun 21 21:16:21 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
Setting the environment variable TMPDIR="/tmp" does not solve the problem. Anyone can help me why CUPS requires /var/tmp/ folder to handle LPD requests???

Suresh




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