/usr/lib/lpd broken in Ultrix 4.0 (RISC)
Dave Wortman
dw at csri.toronto.edu
Wed Dec 19 04:37:35 AEST 1990
I've been trying to use the expanded facilities of /usr/lib/lpd
to do remote printing from a distant workstation. On the workstation,
/etc/printcap for the remote printer includes:
ct=network:uv=psv1.0:of=MYFILTER
plus the usual entries. MYFILTER is installed in /usr/local/lib/lpdfilters.
By adding db#10 to the printcap entry I can monitor attempts at remote
printing (very useful debug output BTW). MYFILTER gets called by
/usr/lib/lpd with the expected arguments.
The problem is that NO standard input is attached to MYFILTER when it
gets called. i.e. if I replace MYFILTER with /bin/cat > /tmp/foo
nothing goes into the file /tmp/foo.
If anyone has a workaround for this bug, I'd be interested
Dave Wortman, Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto
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