[cups.development] Re: Problem in printing from LPD - Solved

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Jun 22 10:22:14 PDT 2005


Suresh Kanniappan wrote:
> ...
> Note that the printing locally in Linux PC 1 with or without /var/tmp/ 
> directory does not provide this problem.

You probably have TMPDIR set in your account, and if you are printing
from the root account then it will default to /var/spool/cups/tmp
instead of /var/tmp for security reasons.

> My query is that why printing via LPD alone require this /var/tmp/ 
> folder.  I searched CUPS source code, but i didn't get any idea.

The cups/tempfile.c code is responsible for creating temporary files
for all of the CUPS software.

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