[Xprint] Xprint 009.001 test canidate builds...

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Roland Mainz wrote:

>1. Does Fedora require that the user which want to print must be in a
>special group (like "lp", "print", "cups", etc.) ?  
>
No, it apparently doesn't - using the same account, the same KDE 
session, I can print fine from KDE and Gnome apps that don't use XPrint. 
One thing worth noting, the local CUPS server on both workstations  is 
only serving remote printers pulled dynamically from a different CUPS 
server in the LAN.

>2. Does "lpstat" work for user "root" ?  
>
Yes, it does. But it depends. "lpstat -l" shows nothing; "lpstat -p" 
shows a listing of printers:
# lpstat -p
printer ab_17p_1100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer drukarka07 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer drukarka08 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer drukarka10 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer drukarka14 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer handlowy_integracja_18p_HPLJ4050 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 
00:00
printer handlowy_szkola_18p_HPLJ4050 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer hr_17p_HPLJ2200 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer java_19p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer kadry_18p_HPLJ1100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer kadry_18p_HPLJ1100_druga is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer lotus_16p_HPLJ4050 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer marketing_16p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer novell_17p_HPLJ4050 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
        Waiting for job to complete...
printer office_17p_HPLJ1100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer pj_17p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer pzu_19p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer pzu_33p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer sekretariat19_19p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer sekretariat19_19p_HPLJ4M is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer sekretariat_20p_HPDJ970C is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer sekretariat_20p_HPLJ2300 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer serwis_17p_HPLJ4M is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
printer unix_17p_HPLJ2100 is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00

All of them are visible in XPrint's client (Mozilla browser), but 
printing to any of them results only in the vague error log messages 
I've written about in the previous message.

>What do % ls -lad /tmp # and % ls -lad /var/tmp # say ?
>
On Mandrake:
# ls -lad /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  12 root root 280 Jul  6 15:59 /tmp/
# ls -lad /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 4096 Jul  6 12:38 /var/tmp/

On Fedora:
# ls -lad /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  19 root root 16384 Jul  6 15:14 /tmp
# ls -lad /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4096 Jul  5 18:27 /var/tmp

Looks fine, doesn't it?

> David Schweiger
>looked at the issue a while ago and said that the error is coming from
>CUPS's version of "lpr" itself - the /etc/init.d/xprint script just
>wraps that output.
>
>Does % chmod a+rwxt /tmp /var/tmp # fix the problem (see
>http://www.debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16056) ?
>  
>
No, it doesn't. Still the same error in /var/log/messages:

Xprt_33: lpr: unable to create temporary file.

Another error on Fedora Core 1, this time it's descriptive:

Xprt_33: error opening security policy file 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

It seems that on Fedora Core 1 the SecurityPolicy file resides in a 
different location:

# locate SecurityPolicy
/etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

>The current Xorg trunk version is much better in various areas including
>fault-tolerance (like having junk in fonts.dir) ... I still have to get
>the maintaince release 009.001 shipped and then push a 010 trunk build
>out of the door... in general most of the Linuces already ship with a
>working Xprt version (Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo etc.) or are planning to
>ship one (like SuSE in the upcoming SuSE 9.2 release) ...
>  
>
That would be great! All major dsitributions have already switched to 
X.org BTW...

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