Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 18:00:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst) Cc: kline@tera.com, kstewart@3-cities.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printjob.c Message-ID: <199905020100.SAA14746@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <19990502013254.B54487@scientia.demon.co.uk> from Ben Smithurst at "May 2, 99 01:32:54 am"
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According to Ben Smithurst:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > Sure. This would have been pretty common, both by new users
> > and by the more seasoned user.
> >
> > Doug White, if you have any time, maybe you can think of
> > something obscure... Why execv() fails in printjob.c,
> > andor why lpr doesn't queue anything.
>
> One thing you may or may not have checked: if it's a script of some sort,
> is the #! line correct?
>
I find the #! line 3 spaces down in hpif and thought,
Wow! But I fixed that and retried "lpr hpif" and no-joy.
Here is the script that I swiped from the Search page.
The script may be bad; No more "cannot execv %s" errors;
now the error is from lp.
May 1 17:46:22 tao su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1
May 1 17:46:51 tao lpd[15275]: lp: job could not be printed (cfA400tao.thought.org)
#!/bin/sh
#
# ifhp - Print Ghostscript-simulated PostScript on a Canon BJC-4100
# Installed in /usr/local/libexec/hpif
#
# Treat LF as CR+LF:
#
printf "\033&k2G" || exit 2
#
# Read first two characters of the file
#
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
#
# It is PostScript; use Ghostscript to scan-convert and print it
#
/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=epsonc
-sOutputFile=- - \
&& ex
So: new errs. Any idea what's causing this complaint from
``lp''?
hmmm.
thanks!
gary
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