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