[Samba] pdf-printer

Koenraad Lelong
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:40:28 -0000

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