[Samba] pdf-printer
Koenraad Lelong
samba.k.lelong at ace-electronics.be
Tue Jun 30 05:40:28 MDT 2015
Op 30-06-15 om 11:28 schreef Rowland Penny:
> On 30/06/15 10:24, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 30/06/15 10:10, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>>> Op 30-06-15 om 08:58 schreef Rowland Penny:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, did you read to the bottom of this wiki page :
>>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Virtual_PDF_Printer#Setup
>>>>
>>>> By my reading, if you add what it tells you, you should find a new log
>>>> file in '/var/log/samba/Pdfprint.log'
>>>>
>>>> Rowland
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yes I did read that, but there is no output to that log-file, it's
>>> not created either.
>>>
>>> This is my printer section :
>>> [Pdfprinter]
>>> comment = Samba Virtual PDF Printer
>>> path = /var/spool/samba
>>> printable = Yes
>>> lpq command =
>>> lprm command =
>>> print command = /usr/bin/pdfprint.sh -s %f -d /home/%U -o %U
>>> -m 600 -l /var/log/samba/Pdfprint.log
>>>
>>> Slighty modified (other path, no uppercase), and all on one line. And
>>> pdfprint.sh is located in /usr/bin and executable by all.
>>>
>>> I tried the print command manually (as root) and that works.
>>>
>>> Koenraad.
>>
>> This sounds like a permission problem, if you examine the script, the
>> logfile is created here:
>>
>> # Print messages to stdout / logfile
>> output () {
>> if [ -z "$LOG" ] ; then
>> echo -e "$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S") $*"
>> else
>> echo -e "$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S") $*" | tee -a "$LOG"
>> fi
>> }
>>
>> I think if you look now, the logfile will exist.
>>
>> If the logfile exists, I would suggest temporarily making it world
>> writeable (chmod +w
>>
>> /var/log/samba/Pdfprint.log
>>
> OOPs wrong button :-[
>
> Anyway, once you have the logfile and it is world writable, try again as
> a normal user and see if you get anything in the logfile.
>
> Rowland
The file is -rw-rw-rw-, but still no output.
That's why I was trying to generate a samba-log-file, to see if there
were permission-errors or something.
Any idea what log-level will give meaningfull output, but is still
managable ? Can I get logging for printing alone ?
Koenraad
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