[cups] Sending mail from a CentOS7 virtual machine to Fuji Xerox ApeosPort-IV C4475 problem revisted

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Hi Ian,
It seems some characters did not display on the webpage, something was
broken. In the actual HTML source it seems correct.
So I regenerated the blog, and it looks a bit prettier and more correct!
Sorry about that.
Cheers,
Gernot Hassenpflug


On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:54 PM Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 5:38 PM Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 4:50 PM マスターズ・イアン <ian at ncsa.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> > How are you at reading shell scripts?
>>>
>>> Not very good at all really.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Ian,
>> Ah, that is a problem for this sort of thing, as you now know.
>>
>>
>>> or in English, somnething like:
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth.test: Line 17: Unexpected end of file (EOF)
>>> while searching matching '' '
>>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth.test: line 24: syntax error: unexpected end
>>> of file (EOF)
>>>
>>
>> Maybe $INPUT is empty?
>> The way to test a script is to ascertain that the expected inputs exist,
>> and print them out with echo for example to check.
>> Then you can check the output.
>> I don't know if I have time to help on the weekend, but if I do, the
>> first thing I will do is just show you how to do the above.
>> Best regards,
>> Gernot Hassenpflug
>>
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I had a chance to look at the file, and found a few problems with my
> documentation, sorry about that.
> (1) the sed expression is missing the final ' before $INPUT.
> (2) each line must be ended with a \, so final expression should be
>
> sed -e '/@PJL COMMENT Version:4.00/ a\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@CNAM=P10316-VM"\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@DAID="\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@JOAU=3496"\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@LUNA=3496"' $INPUT
>
> Now the logic.
> 1. the test file is read in as the 6th parameter
> 2. a temporary file is created
> 3. the contents of the test file are put into the temporary file
> 4. the sed expression appends 4 lines after the string "@PJL COMMENT
> Version:4.00"
>
> I added a couple of debug lines to the file, and commented out the PPD, so
> in full for testing it is (fxauth.sh, executable):
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> [ -n "$6" ] && exec <"$6"
> # input is regular file
> cleanup() { EXIT_CODE=$? ; rm -f $INPUT &>/dev/null ; exit $EXIT_CODE ; }
> trap 'cleanup' 0 1 2 3 15
>
> MY_NAME=${0##*/}
> INPUT=$( mktemp /var/spool/cups/tmp/root.XXXXXX ) || exit 1
> cat - >$INPUT
>
> # check parameters
> echo "file: $INPUT"
> echo "file contents:"
> cat $INPUT
>
> # prefilter for all printjobs arriving on linux, since authentication is
> not optional
>
> #source /etc/cups/ppd/${PRINTER}.fx
> #source /etc/cups/ppd/11F1.fx
>
> sed -e '/@PJL COMMENT Version:4.00/ a\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@CNAM=P10316-VM"\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@DAID="\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@JOAU=3496"\
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@LUNA=3496"' $INPUT
>
> exit $?
>
> Then I made a test.prn file containing:
>
> This is a test file
> @PJL COMMENT Version:4.00
>
> And then simply ran the script as follows:
>
> hase at hase:~$ ./fxauth.sh 1 2 3 4 5 test.prn
> file: /var/spool/cups/tmp/root.ix5nS8
> file contents:
> This is a test file
> @PJL COMMENT Version:4.00
> This is a test file
> @PJL COMMENT Version:4.00
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@CNAM=P10316-VM"
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@DAID="
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@JOAU=3496"
> @PJL SET JOBATTR="@LUNA=3496"
>
> As you can see the test file neatly has the lines appended.
> So in your printjob you need to check if you have a similar line you can
> use to append after, else you might need to change the filter, e.g., if the
> version is different, or if there is just different stuff there.
>
> I will update my documentation on my webpage now also!
>
> Best regards,
> Gernot Hassenpflug
>
>