Let me clarify the problem I am having.? When I send a print job to? the twoprint printer, the interface script I have defined for that printer is not getting executed.? I am trying to figure out why it is not being run when I send jobs to that printer.
Lee
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Subject: Re: CUPS Interface Script
From: "David Lopez" <
lopezdavid123@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, November 23, 2013 5:45 pm
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
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> lee
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> i have messed with the server script before and to grab and keep errors,
> this is what i placed at the beginning of the script:
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> LogLevel debug2
> LogDebugHistory 500
> MaxLogSize 1m
> MaxClientsPerHost 10
> Listen localhost:631
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> the attributes must have proper case as per the cups docs:
> web address is: http://localhost:631/
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> look at /var/logs/cups/error_log
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> and look for the line: Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
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> look for any errors after that. i found that several attributes were no
> longer used so i removed them.
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> let us know how u solved it.
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> david
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> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 4:55 PM, <lee@citylightsphx.com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to set up a CUPS printer that will print a single print
>> job on two separate printers. I saw a technique online using a CUPS
>> interface script, but it seems the interface script is being bypassed (the
>> first line in the script uses echo to put some text into a file in my home
>> directory, which is not happening). The method is to create a printer with
>> the URI set to /dev/null and an interface that spawns two new print jobs,
>> one to each of the two printers you want it to print on. Here is what I
>> have done:
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>> Script interface_script:
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>> #!/bin/bash
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>> echo "Interface script is running." >>/home/me/debug
>>
>> lp -d printer1 $6
>>
>> lp -d printer2 $6
>>
>> _________________________________
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>> Create Printer: lpadmin -p twoprint -i interface_script -v /dev/null -E
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>> The lpadmin copies the interface_script into /etc/cups/interfaces/twoprint
>> as expected and the permissions on the twoprint script are 755. The CUPS
>> LogLevel is set to debug2 and I don't see anything that looks to me to be
>> an obvious problem in /var/log/cups/error_log.
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>> I had this working in the past, but now I am trying to set it up again and
>> can't get it to work. Does anyone have an idea why the interface script is
>> not getting run?
>>
>> Lee Cowles
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