My Backend does not display when i runlpinfo-v

[Helge Blischke]

Patrice wrote:

>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Jul 27 00:37 Patrice wrote (excerpt):
>> >>> I wrote a simple socket Backend file for my own printing and store it
>> >>> in the directory /usr/lib/cups/backend/mysocket. The permission of
>> >>> the file is the same as others (-rwxr-xr-x) but when I run lpinfo -v
>> >>> to see all the available backends my backend does not display.
>> >>
>> >> Have a look at
>> >> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS
>> >> for examples.
>> >
>> > The example I am using is from the link above but I still can't get
>> > it to work. Is there something I should do when installing the
>> > the backend in the directory? I suppose the above example should
>> > also work under Ubuntu 10.10
>>
>> The examples were tested and worked for me when I wrote the article and
>> right now I verified that the "optimistic backend for a network printer"
>> works on my openSUSE 11.3 system:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> root at host# lpinfo -v | grep mysocket
>> network mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100
>>
>> root at host# lpadmin -p testy -v mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100 -E
>>
>> root at host# lpstat -v testy
>> device for testy: mysocket://192.168.1.2:9100
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I don't know about possible peculiarities or differences in Ubuntu.
>>
>> Perhaps a re-start of the cupsd may help?
>>
>> Perhaps /var/log/cups/error_log (with "LogLevel debug") may
>> show something of interest why it does not work?
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Johannes Meixner
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>> Imendoerffer
>>
> 
> Hello Johannes
> 
> When I run the command $ lpinfo -v | grep mysocket I get the following
> error in the "/var/log/cups/error_log" file:
> 
> E [27/Jul/2011:15:21:33 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 8653 (mysocket) stopped
> with status 8!
> 
> Regards
> Patrice

How did you compile your backend? status 8 might be "exec format error".

Helge