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Date:      Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:07:39 +0100
From:      Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
To:        Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gs not found, scripts failing
Message-ID:  <3E4E65CB.9080908@ant.uni-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <3E4E141D.9000302@intersonic.se>
References:  <3E4E141D.9000302@intersonic.se>

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Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> I'm having problems with scripts involvivng Ghostscript on FreeBSD 
> (4.6-4.7).
> Specifically, I am implementing a Hylafax solution and most of it works 
> but there a two areas that fail:
> 1. Running the SambaFax (http://www.purpel3.com/sambafax/) utility that 
> extracts a fax number from a postscript file
> 
> 2. Using the "faxrcvd" script that comes with Hylafax converting 
> incoming faxes to pdf's.
> 
> In both cases the scripts seems to fail when tiff2ps, ps2pdf etc. are 
> being executed.
> 
> Running the scripts manually from the shell works.

seems like /usr/local/bin (this is where gs lives) is not in the PATH when your 
scripts are executed. Try to set the PATH env variable in the script, i.e.

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

(Syntax is for Bourne shell)

HTH

	Heinrich

> 
> The only trace I hae so far from the logs is when (1.) is executed, 
> cupsd reports "gs: not found".
> 
> How do I go about debugging this? I am in no way a programmer although I 
> understand parts of what the scripts are doing.
> 
> Grateful for any advice,
> Per olof
> 
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