Problem in printing from LPD - Solved

[Michael Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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,

The TempDir directive (and everything else in cupsd.conf) is not used
by cups-lpd.

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