[cups.general] lpadmin: Bad device-uri

[Ryan Suarez]

Sorry, cut&pasted error on my part

Michael Sweet wrote:
> The examples you show look like you have two copies of the command  
> concatenated together (separated by a "#").
>
> Try just:
>
>      /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p aPDFprinter -v pdf:///tmp
>
> On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Ryan Suarez wrote:
>
>   
>> hrmm, problem is I'm not adding a '#'.  And I get the same error  
>> when I
>> add 2 or 3 slashes.
>>
>> # /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p aPDFprinter -v pdf:/tmp# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p
>> aPDFprinter -v pdf://tmp
>> lpadmin: Bad device-uri "pdf:/tmp#"!
>> # /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p aPDFprinter -v pdf:/tmp# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p
>> aPDFprinter -v pdf:///tmp
>> lpadmin: Bad device-uri "pdf:/tmp#"!
>>
>>
>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>     
>>> "#" 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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