Job NOT being filtered

[Helge Blischke]

Stefan Adams wrote:
> It's possible to filter a job of text sent from the command line, right?
> 
> Like this:
> 
> # echo hi | lpr
> 
> # cat /etc/cups/*.{types,convs}
> text/hi         printable(0,1024) + string(0,hi)
> text/hi              application/vnd.cups-postscript    3       skeleton
> 
> # ls -l /usr/lib/cups/filter/skeleton
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3522 May 22 20:01 /usr/lib/cups/filter/skeleton*
> 
> # cat /usr/lib/cups/filter/skeleton
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $|=1;
> open TMP, ">/tmp/skeleton.tmp";
> print TMP qx{date};
> close TMP;
> exit 0;
> [...]

What springs to my eyes at the first glance is that your
filter does not follow the filter calling conventions.

Helge


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