Problems with gs, apsfilter, and Canon bjc6000

[Joseph T. Tannenbaum]

The biggest problem--It's a Canon.
joe

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> Subject: Problems with gs, apsfilter, and Canon bjc6000
>
>
> Ok, I'll try it again (the previous one I sent failed with nary a
> peep - and
> I stupidly have my email set up to not keep a copy, so here goes
> again from
> scratch - oh, well).
>
> I (foolishly) bought a Canon bjc6000 printer (foolishly because it is
> not fully supported on linux - that's a different story I'll
> spare everyone
> from, but I will say I'm not a happy Canon customer).
>
> It looked like I needed to upgrade everything, so I downloaded and
> installed gs 6.01 and the most recent (I think) version of apsfilter.
>
> Everything seemed to go fine, until I actually tried to print something.
> All I get is an error message in the log, to wit:
>
>  Status: subserver pid 18644 starting at 18:30:41.487
>  Status: accounting at start at 18:30:41.514
>  Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 18:30:41.484
>  Status: opening device '/dev/parport0' at 18:30:41.559
>  Status: printing job 'root@base-station-alpha+640' at 18:30:41.560
>  Status: processing 'dfA640base-station-alpha.descomp.com', size
> 226361, format 'f', IF filter
> 'aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' at 18:30:41.560
>  Status: IF filter 'aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' filter
> msg - 'Make_passthrough: pid 18645, execve
> '/root/apsfilter/filter/aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default'
> failed - 'Permission denied'' at 18:30:41.564
>  Status: IF filter 'aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' filter
> exit status 'JABORT' at 18:30:41.564
>  Status: printing finished at 18:30:41.564
>  Status: accounting at end at 18:30:41.565
>  Status: finished 'root@base-station-alpha+640', status 'JABORT'
> at 18:30:41.565
>  Status: subserver pid 18644 exit status 'JABORT' at 18:30:41.566
>  Status: job 'root@base-station-alpha+640' error 'aborting
> operations' at 18:30:41.566
>  Status: removing job 'root@base-station-alpha+640' - ABORT at
> 18:30:41.568
>  Filter_status: lp2 is ready and printing
>
> I'm certain that the script is not actually getting executed because I put
> a 'touch /tmp/foo' at the beginning and its not getting touched.
>
>
> Here's the interesting parts of my /etc/printcap:
>
> lp2|aps1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default|Printer1 bjc6000a1.upp
> letter auto default:\
>     :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default:\
>     :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default/log:\
>     :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default/acct:\
>     :if=/root/apsfilter/filter/aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default:\
>     :mx#0:\
>     :sh:
>
> Here's ls -l of the if paths:
>
> [root@base-station-alpha filter]# ls -l
> total 44
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep 14 18:52
> aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default -> ../bin/apsfilter*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep 14 18:52
> aps2-bjc610a0.upp-letter-raw -> ../bin/apsfilter*
> [root@base-station-alpha filter]# ls -l ../bin/apsfilter
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 bin      wheel       55807 Sep 14 19:13 ../bin/apsfilter*
> [root@base-station-alpha filter]#
>
>
> Does anyone have a clue what's wrong?  I'm certainly highly
> clue-challenged
> at this point...
>
> rusty
>
>
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