Subject: Re: printing with acroread7 and cups
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/01/2005 23:17:48
On Thursday 01 September 2005 15:09, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Ah -- excellent catch.  It turns out that it's the existence of
> /emul/linux/usr/pkg/bin that causes the problem.  Having just
> /emul/linux/usr/pkg doesn't cause any trouble.
>
> It's getting late; I'll do some ktraces tomorrow to understand exactly
> what the problem is before I file a PR.

Thats consistent with what I saw back in May.  If you had "/usr/pkg/bin/lpr" 
in acroread's dialog box it would try to to cd to "/usr/pkg/bin" which on 
your problem machine would take it to "/emul/linux/usr/pkg/bin" and on the 
other machine to "/usr/pkg/bin", do a getcwd() and append lpr to the result 
to get the path it actually tries to use.  Why it bothers I don't know.

cheers
mark