Problem in printing from LPD - Solved

[Michael Sweet]

Suresh wrote:
> ...
> 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???

It's a temporary directory, historically used to hold (potentially)
larger temp files back in the day when you had small root
filesystems.  Even today, /tmp is often a RAM-based filesystem and
is thus not suitable for temporary print files.

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