[Xprint] more Augment_Printer_List problems

Rudolf Kollien Rudolf.Kollien at medas.de
Thu Sep 1 16:27:12 EDT 2005


Is this already reported as a bug? 

The workaround is ok until the next release. Unfortunately i install and 
update from rpm (it's easier to manage on 75 workstations). So i'm not able 
to patch the source.

Rudolf

Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 11:52 schrieb Toby Blake:
> > i run into the same problem. After 3h of writing an augment script,
> > which only returns the user-relevant printers from the more than 200
> > printers on our server, i now no more able to print from Firefox.
> >
> > I cannot imagine that no Xprint-user ever used the augment
> > configuration option? Why this bug still exists, when this error
> > already was reported in March 2004???
> >
> > Is there any config option to specify a "special" spool comand?
> >
> > Any hints to solve the problem are welcome.
>
> I changed the source code to solve this bug in my case.  I modified
> src/xprint_main/xc/programs/Xserver/Xprint/spooler.c and added my own
> LIST_QUEUES_xxxx and DEFAULT_SPOOL_COMMAND_xxxx and added a new
> spooler type to xpstm[], which I can call with the -XpSpoolerType
> agument to Xprt.
>
> It's not ideal, given that this is supposed to be configurable, but it
> serves as a workaround for the moment.
>
> Toby
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