[cups.general] How to create PS-to-file queue in CUPS 1.4, OS X 10.6

[Michael Sweet]

On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Ben BW wrote:
>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, we've been asking Adobe not to do what they are doing for many
>> years now...
>
> Is your problem with the print queue itself, or how they implement it?

The latter - writing directly to a user's home directory is a  
generally broken notion for CUPS, since the printing user may be on  
another system and may not even be the same as the local user (e.g.  
"mike" on one system isn't necessarily the same as "mike" on another  
system...)

On Mac OS X, things like FileVault (encrypted home directories) make  
things even more interesting, since the user's home directory may not  
even be mounted.

Using a separate holding directory, or having the backend send the  
final file back to the user via a launch agent (again, a Mac OS X  
thing - xinetd provides similar functionality on Linux) so that the  
file ends up in the right place.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer