I have a FreeBSD-12.1p5 host that I use as my desktop (mate). Previous to a recent update I had cups-pdf configured and working placing the pdf files in /var/spool/cups-pdf/username directory. Now I get a back-end failure reported and no output.
The last successful pdf creation was on January 20. There are no cups error records since June of last year. The cups access log says:
There is output in /var/spool/cups for these jobs, but nothing produced in /var/spool/cups-pdf/username.
Which looks like a pdf file to me. I copied this file from /var/spool/cups/d01676-001 to /var/spool/cups-pdf/username/d01676-001.pdf and changed the ownership to username:username and the file is indeed the expected pdf. Obviously, this process is extremely cumbersome, particularly in that my username account is non-privileged so that I must resort to root to get to see the file.
What has changed and how do I get this fixed?
The last successful pdf creation was on January 20. There are no cups error records since June of last year. The cups access log says:
Code:
localhost - - [27/May/2020:11:13:04 -0400] "POST /printers/cups-pdf HTTP/1.1" 200 58718 Print-Job successful-ok
There is output in /var/spool/cups for these jobs, but nothing produced in /var/spool/cups-pdf/username.
Code:
more /var/spool/cups/d01676-001
%PDF-1.5
%<B5><ED><AE><FB>
3 0 obj
<< /Length 4 0 R
/Filter /FlateDecode
>>
stream
. . .
0000057163 00000 n
0000057289 00000 n
trailer
<< /Size 47
/Root 46 0 R
/Info 45 0 R
>>
startxref
57342
%%EOF
What has changed and how do I get this fixed?