[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#501719: [Fwd: Re: Bug#501719: cups-pdf: doesn't play well with NetWare shares]

[Volker Behr]

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:56 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> tags 501719 + patch
> thanks
> [...]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> --- cups-pdf-2.4.8/README.~1~	2008-06-22 13:41:29.000000000 +0200
> +++ cups-pdf-2.4.8/README	2008-10-27 18:35:03.000000000 +0100
> @@ -45,6 +45,13 @@
>          and set the file permissions of the backend to 0700 (root only).
>     *make sure if any of CUPS-PDF's working directories (e.g. output) is a 
>      NFS mounted volume it is mounted without root_squash!
> +   *make sure that the filesystem for any of CUPS-PDF's working directories
> +    (e.g. output) features all basic properties of UNIX-filesystems,
> +    especially chown(1) and chmod(1).  This means that if you want to use a
> +    NetWare share as CUPS-PDF's output directory, the NetWare share should be
> +    mount with the ncpfs' options uid and gid set to the user that want to
> +    print her/his PDFs there.  This was extensively discussed in the Debian
> +    bug #501719 (http://bugs.debian.org/501719).
>     *CUPS-PDF is known to fail if the gs (GhostScript) binary on a system is 
>      compressed by upx (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables).
>     *if you are using SELinux make sure it does not interfere with CUPS-PDF
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> [...]

I will add an according paragraph upstream to the documentation as
already mentioned earlier.

Regards,
Volker

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