OutputFile to /dev/fd?

Stephane Russell stephane.russell at prodigeinfo.com
Sun Dec 2 23:23:41 PST 2007


Hello,

I installed cups with foomatic+gs to print on a HP LAserJet 5L. The printing freeze with no errors. A "ps" shows that gs is trying to print to /dev/fd/X:

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USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
root      6404  0.0  0.7  4128 3540  ??  SLs   1:34AM   0:14.20 /usr/pkg/sbin/cupsd
lp        6737  0.0  1.1  6032 5648  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.20 /usr/pkg/bin/perl /usr/pkg/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 18 srussell Test Page 1 job-uuid
lp        6738  0.0  0.4  3332 1884  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.00 parallel:/dev/lpt0 18 srussell Test Page 1 job-uuid=urn:uuid:a3548084-8084-37b3-4695-ace0e7f
lp        6739  0.0  1.1  6028 5644  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.00 /usr/pkg/bin/perl /usr/pkg/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 18 srussell Test Page 1 job-uuid
lp        6740  0.0  1.1  6052 5664  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.00 /usr/pkg/bin/perl /usr/pkg/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 18 srussell Test Page 1 job-uuid
lp        6741  0.0  0.1   784  532  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.01 sh -c foomatic-gswrapper -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=-
lp        6742  0.0  0.1   784  532  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.02 sh -c gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ljet4' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '
lp        6743  0.0  0.4  2628 2184  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.01 perl -p -0033 -e  s/^&l\\d+[aA]/$&/;
lp        6744  0.0  2.4 16496 12504  ??  IL    1:49AM   0:00.34 gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 /dev/fd/0
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Does anyone have this problem too? Why is it trying to print in a "fd" device?

Thanks

SR





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