lp and spool directort

[Michael Sweet]

John wrote:
> ...
> lp: unable to create temporary file
> "/open_source/bin-sun/cups/var/spool/cups/tmp/42824afbd4415" - No
> such file or directory
> 
> This path that it's looking for doesn't exist on my test machine
> (it's the path where I compiled it on the other machine).
> 
> So, my question is, where does "lp" get its spool path info from ? Is
> this compiled in, or is there a config file somewhere that I'm
> missing ?

The error you are seeing can be avoided by setting the TMPDIR
environment variable, e.g.:

     TMPDIR=/tmp; export TMPDIR

When TMPDIR is not set, the CUPS temp file code will use a default
value - "CUPS_REQUESTS/tmp" for the root account and "/var/tmp" for
all other accounts.

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