[cups.general] lpadmin: Bad device-uri

[Michael Sweet]

"#" is not a valid character in a device URI, and "pdf:/tmp#" is not  
well-formed - you need two slashes at least, preferably 3 to match up  
with the generic URI spec...

On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Ryan Suarez wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm stuck, could someone please help?  I get this error on RHEL 5.3:
>
> # /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p aPDFprinter -v pdf:/tmp# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p
> aPDFprinter -v pdf:/tmp
> lpadmin: Bad device-uri "pdf:/tmp#"!
>
> # ls -la /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf
> -rwx------ 1 root root 2343 Aug 24 15:15 /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf
>
> # cups-config --version  (it's just the standard cups rpm for this  
> RHEL)
> 1.3.7
>
> here's a copy of the backend:
> http://pastebin.ca/1542040
>
> and cupsd.conf:
> http://pastebin.ca/1542046
>
> What causing this?
>
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer