Subject: Re: papd error
From: Carsten Neumann (deltor@snafu.de)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 13:30:06 EDT
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, James Pione wrote:
> Hi All.
> 	I'm running netatalk 1.4b2 on a FreeBSD 4.2 box as a file and
> print server for a bunch of macs. First, I have to say netatalk generally
> runs great. Unfortunately, papd keeps on returning an error message
> whenever one of the macs sends a print job. Here's the message:
> 
> papd[314]: select: Interrupted system call
> papd[239]: child 314 exited with 1
> papd[239]: child 314 exited with 1
> 
> Here's my papd.conf:
> 
> morlock:\
> 	:pr=|usr/bin/lpr -Plp:\
> 	:pd=/usr/share/lib/ppd/LASERWRITER12640PS.ppd
> 
> Fortunately, even though papd returns this error, the user's jobs still
> print. Thanks in advance for anyone's ideas.
What makes me wonder is that it works at all!
You will probably want to change the `pr=' option to:
        :pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plp:
i.e. making the path to `lpr' absolute and not relative to /,
relying on that your working dir is /.
Kind regards
        Carsten
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