On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:20:46PM -0400, Bob Stockler wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:52:31PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> | I believe I've discovered a design deficiency in viewprt.
> |
> | Apparently, in certain circumstances, filepro creates -p output files
> | which are not readable by the general public. For some reason, while
> | the less command spawned by viewprt can read them (it apparently
> | inherits viewprt's EUID), lp pukes because it cannot (a permission
> | error). I believe this is because it's the lp *unspooler* program,
> | which runs as user lp, that tries to open said file. I saw two
> | possible solutions: chmod the temp file inside viewprt, or modify
> |
> | lp -n $print $dir/$file
> |
> | into
> |
> | cat $dir/$file | lp -n $print
>
> Useless use of "cat" #50,999,999. Replace with:
>
> <$dir/$file lp -n $print
Some shells won't interpret variables as the argument of a redirection
(specifically, older SCO shells), and in any event, put the redirection
on the *right*, Bob. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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