Almut Behrens wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:56:18AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
"a2ps -P display .bashrc" yields:
[.bashrc (plain): 2 pages on 2 sheets]
sh: line 1: /tmp/a2_HSzrDm: Permission denied
[Total: 2 pages on 2 sheets] sent to the printer `display'
[2 lines wrapped]
Using strace i found:
[pid 8415] open("/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE,
0666) = 3
and a bit later:
[pid 8416] execve("/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p", ["/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p"], [/* 25 vars
*/]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
Just an idea: maybe you have a seperate partition for /tmp, which is
mounted "noexec" (as a security measure). If so, you might want to try
remounting it "exec" temporarily
# mount -o remount,exec /tmp
If that should solve the problem with a2ps, you could try to
* file a bug report
* set TMPDIR to some other directory where you have execute permission
before you run a2ps. -- Not sure what technique a2ps uses to create
tempfiles (there are quite a few...) -- at least some of them honor the
setting of the environment variable TMPDIR...
* have /tmp be mounted executable, permanently (in fstab)
Good luck,
Almut
Thanks for your reply, Almut
i already checked the mount options for /tmp and played with TMPDIR (i
should have mentioned that in my mail :-)).
I then compared with my system at home where a2ps is working. strace
there gives:
[pid 5604] execve("/usr/bin/gv", ["gv", "/tmp/a2_0T7bPF"], [/* 23 vars
*/]) = 0
On the faulty system i get:
[pid 8416] execve("/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p", ["/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p"], [/* 25 vars
>>*/]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
The first parameter (gv) is missing. A further look at /etc/a2ps.cfg
revealed that i had inadvertently commented out the
Variable: ghostview gv
line. After removing the comment, a2ps works fine!!!
Regards,
Heinrich
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