Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:46:22 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org> To: Aleksandar Simic <zen13038@zen.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASCII printing OK, but anything else isn't Message-ID: <20040531174622.GB59503@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <20040531163810.GA33356@yashin.myname.mydomain> References: <20040528171332.GB3367@yashin.myname.mydomain> <20040531141611.GA40540@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20040531163810.GA33356@yashin.myname.mydomain>
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On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:38:10PM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote:
>
> Hello Andreas,
>
> thanks for responding, I was just giving up hope.
Hi ... well no need to I think.
But you have to analyze what happens.
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:16:11PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > > + HEADER=/tmp/apsfilter36346/header1
> > > + dd bs=1k count=16
> > > ++ file /tmp/apsfilter36346/header1
> > > file: couldn't find any magic files!
> > > + FILE_TYPE=
> >
> > Your file command doesn't seem to find its database (the magic file) ...
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 285300 16 Nov 2003 /usr/share/misc/magic
> >
> > Does your magic command work on the commandline ?
> >
> > root# file /etc/passwd
> > /etc/passwd: ASCII text
> >
> > root# file /usr/share/misc/magic
> > /usr/share/misc/magic: magic text file for file(1) cmd
>
> It works just like your examples above:
>
> [alex@~] cd /etc/
> [alex@/etc] file /etc/passwd
> /etc/passwd: ASCII text
> [alex@/etc] file /usr/share/misc/magic
> /usr/share/misc/magic: magic text file for file(1) cmd
Hmm the strange thing is, that the file command doesnt
seem to work when running under lpd ....
> > > + FILE_TYPE=
Therefore filetype variable is empty.
you could try to modify apsfilter in a way,
that it exits quite early
set -x
file /etc/passwd
exit 1
Then see what the logfile says
printcap:
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
> [alex@/usr/share/misc] l magic
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 285300 May 28 15:41 magic
>
>
> see ------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
> > How did you install FreeBSD ? Minimum installation ?
>
> This problem has been occuring to me since FreeBSD 4.8 which I
> installed from the official ISOs. At the moment I'm at FreeBSD
> 4.10. And I've tried everything, installing ghostscript from sources,
> installing it from packages, deinstalling and reinstalling. Then I
> tried installing different versions of ghostscript found in ports:
> ghostscript-afpl and ghostscript-gnu.
>
> No luck.
strange.
> Then I'v tried the same with apsfilter. And still the problem
> persisted.
>
>
> > Or are some distribution files missing ?
>
> Distribution of what, the dependencies of apsfilter port ? Or of the
> FreeBSD release ?
I meant distribution of FreeBSD.
Might have been the case you ftp'd it from fp server
and did an installation from a DOS filesystem ...
Might have been the case, that some files were missing or such
Only an assumption, since I thought the magicfile is missing
on your Unix.
> Since the install of FreeBSD 4.8 I've done numerous upgrades of the
> system from the source. Just the other day I've upgraded from
> 4.10-PRERELEASE to 4.10-STABLE.
>
> I've also kept my ports tree and packages in sync so this problem
> would have been solved if it was just the packages or the system
> sources.
>
> > A make world under /usr/src might help you.
>
> See the paragraph above.
>
> > Use cvsup to get the sources if you didn't install these.
>
> I did, see the paragraph above.
hmm ok ....
> If you want I can give you ssh access and root privilages to try to
> solve this. We can arrange a time that will suit you, when I will be
> present so that we can talk via write(1) or IRC/jabber os some other
> way, just so that I can tell you if the printouts are comming and how
> they look.
Maybe in two weeks if I have a long weekend.
But Id appreciate you troubleshoot it yourself.
> Just a suggestion.
>
> And thanks again for replying, I've used apsfilter from FreeBSD 3.x
> time and always found it easy to setup and use. That it isn't working
> now is completely baffling to me.
Try changing the apsfilter script the way I told you
and lpay a little with the file command ...
It doesn't seem to run under lpd ...
Or lpd uses another one ?
Maybe another one installed ?
I really dunno ... only some thoughts.
And maybe ask on freebsd-stable if there are some
apsfilter users ....
Im running 5.2.1 and dont have an 4.x reference platform anymore.
Andreas ///
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