ASCII printing OK, but anything else isn't

[Andreas Klemm]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:38:10PM +0100, Aleksandar Simic wrote:
> 
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> thanks for responding, I was just giving up hope.

Hi ... well no need to I think.

But you have to analyze what happens.

> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:16:11PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > > + HEADER=/tmp/apsfilter36346/header1
> > > + dd bs=1k count=16
> > > ++ file /tmp/apsfilter36346/header1
> > > file: couldn't find any magic files!
> > > + FILE_TYPE=
> > 
> > Your file command doesn't seem to find its database (the magic file) ...
> > -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  285300 16 Nov  2003 /usr/share/misc/magic
> > 
> > Does your magic command work on the commandline ?
> > 
> > root# file /etc/passwd
> > /etc/passwd: ASCII text
> > 
> > root# file /usr/share/misc/magic
> > /usr/share/misc/magic: magic text file for file(1) cmd
> 
> It works just like your examples above:
> 
> [alex@~] cd /etc/
> [alex@/etc] file /etc/passwd 
> /etc/passwd: ASCII text
> [alex@/etc] file /usr/share/misc/magic
> /usr/share/misc/magic: magic text file for file(1) cmd

Hmm the strange thing is, that the file command doesnt
seem to work when running under lpd ....

> > > + FILE_TYPE=
Therefore filetype variable is empty.

you could try to modify apsfilter in a way,
that it exits quite early

set -x
file /etc/passwd
exit 1

Then see what the logfile says
printcap:
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\


> [alex@/usr/share/misc] l magic
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  285300 May 28 15:41 magic
> 
> 
> see ------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 
> > How did you install FreeBSD ? Minimum installation ?
> 
> This problem has been occuring to me since FreeBSD 4.8 which I
> installed from the official ISOs. At the moment I'm at FreeBSD
> 4.10. And I've tried everything, installing ghostscript from sources,
> installing it from packages, deinstalling and reinstalling. Then I
> tried installing different versions of ghostscript found in ports:
> ghostscript-afpl and ghostscript-gnu. 
> 
> No luck.

strange.

> Then I'v tried the same with apsfilter. And still the problem
> persisted.
> 
> 
> > Or are some distribution files missing ?
> 
> Distribution of what, the dependencies of apsfilter port ? Or of the
> FreeBSD release ? 

I meant distribution of FreeBSD.
Might have been the case you ftp'd it from fp server
and did an installation from a DOS filesystem ...

Might have been the case, that some files were missing or such

Only an assumption, since I thought the magicfile is missing 
on your Unix.

> Since the install of FreeBSD 4.8 I've done numerous upgrades of the
> system from the source. Just the other day I've upgraded from
> 4.10-PRERELEASE to 4.10-STABLE.
> 
> I've also kept my ports tree and packages in sync so this problem
> would have been solved if it was just the packages or the system
> sources.
> 
> > A make world under /usr/src might help you.
> 
> See the paragraph above.
> 
> > Use cvsup to get the sources if you didn't install these.
> 
> I did, see the paragraph above.

hmm ok ....


> If you want I can give you ssh access and root privilages to try to
> solve this. We can arrange a time that will suit you, when I will be
> present so that we can talk via write(1) or IRC/jabber os some other
> way, just so that I can tell you if the printouts are comming and how
> they look.

Maybe in two weeks if I have a long weekend.

But Id appreciate you troubleshoot it yourself.

> Just a suggestion.
> 
> And thanks again for replying, I've used apsfilter from FreeBSD 3.x
> time and always found it easy to setup and use. That it isn't working
> now is completely baffling to me.

Try changing the apsfilter script the way I told you
and lpay a little with the file command ...

It doesn't seem to run under lpd ...

Or lpd uses another one ?

Maybe another one installed ?

I really dunno ... only some thoughts.

And maybe ask on freebsd-stable if there are some
apsfilter users ....

Im running 5.2.1 and dont have an 4.x reference platform anymore.

	Andreas ///

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