[cups.general] slack (Sysadmin's lazy autoconfiguration kit) and cups

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Jul 11 07:49:11 PDT 2011


Signal 13 is SIGPIPE - the pdftopdf filter (not part of CUPS) needs to catch or ignore SIGPIPE.

On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Kay Nettle wrote:

> I'm trying to figure if I can use slack to keep cups up to date.  What slack does is rsync the files to a cache directory, run a preinstall, and fixfile script, then copies the files to their destination, and finally runs a postinstall script.
> 
> Since I'm still working on the slack roll, the preinstall stops cups, fixfiles makes sure printers.conf is mode 600 and in group lp, and the postinstall starts cups.
> 
> My initial 'slack cups' worked great, then I had to change a ppd, so I ran slack again and started getting these errors:
> 
> E [06/Jul/2011:16:41:51 -0500] PID 29050 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf) crashed
> on signal 13!
> E [06/Jul/2011:16:41:52 -0500] PID 29085 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf) crashed
> on signal 13!
> 
> I did some tests and I only have the above problem if I stop cups, copy over printers.conf (there have been no changes to the file or any of the ppds), and start cups.
> 
> Since I'm new to cups, I'm wondering if I'm doing something stupid or if I can only run my cups role when I'm adding/subtracting a printer?  (We run slack from a cron job)
> 
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