Problem in printing from LPD - Solved

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Jun 22 04:55:19 PDT 2005


Suresh wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >

> 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

Have you looked at the TempDir keyword in your cupsd.conf ?

Helge

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