[cups-devel] "CUPS JobCopy" replacement?

[Michael Sweet]

Smith,

No, that's the only real way to do it, modulo sandboxing on OS X that will limit which directories can be written to and permissions issues messing with things...


On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Back in the day we had acquired (I guess from Easy SW or perhaps Apple) a set of shell scripts that were collectively called “JobCopy”, which included 4 scripts:
> buffercups
> jobcopyon
> jobcopyoff
> jobcopystatus
> 
> The purpose of this was to shim out the backends with a copy of the “buffercups” script, which would basically act as a wrapper for the “tee” command, to allow a copy of the print-ready bits to be saved in /tmp.
> 
> I was wondering if there was a more savvy way of doing this?  Like is there a configuration directive or something that would get cupsd to insert a tee into the filter pipeline in between the last filter (“CUPS print driver”) and the port monitor and/or backend.  I could dig myself but if anybody had some pointers I’d really appreciate it!
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Smith
> 
> 
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair