gs_init.ps not found

[Anonymous]

> smynggi at myrealbox.com wrote:
> >
> > I'm receiving the following in my cups error log:
> > ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps.
> >
> > The file does exist on my system in /usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib.
> >
> > I'm running Gentoo and using emerge to install Ghostscript.
> >
> > To troubleshoot, I ran gs from the command prompt and got the same message.  So I created the environment variable GS_LIB.  I no longer get the error message at the command prompt.  But I still get the error message in the CUPS error log.  Why would CUPS not work if gs is working from the command line?
>
> Seems that your gs has not been compiled with respect to the propoer
> library path;
> perhapos gentoo has different ideas where to install binaries and stuff
> that those need.
>
> Set your GS_LIB variable in the /etc/init.d/cups startup file (or
> whereever it
> resides) and restart CUPS.
>
> Helge
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
> SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
> http://www.srz.de

Hi Helge,
Thanks for the reply.  I tried adding:
GS_LIB=/usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib
export GS_LIB
to the /etc/init.d/cupsd in the section where the daemon is to be started.  In order to start the daemon, the script executes:
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/cupsd

It would appear that start-stop-daemon runs the cups daemon as a system process and doesn't recognize the variable that I set.  The user who actually executed the /etc/init.d/cupsd script now can echo $GS_LIB and see that the variable is set properly.

Do you know how I can set this variable so that daemons initiated via start-stop-daemon can read it?  If not, can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks again for the reply.
-smynggi