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I am trying to create a custom backend, using the "educational backend": Printing/Developer Tools

I think everything would work if the backend was recognized....

I copied the contents of the file 2dirto /usr/lib/cups/backend/, set correct permissions (experimented with everything from 700 to 555 to 755). Unfortunately 

lpinfo -v

does not list the 2dir backend.

What could be the problem ?

Note: I checked for line endings 

file 2dir
2dir: UTF-8 Unicode English text

(because i converted it using dos2unix)

Thalia
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The script I copied from the site had a leading space in front of the "#!/bin/bash" line - and that made the files NOT EXECUTABLE !!!

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Okay, your problem ist solved, but I stumbled upon another problem: Duplicated one backend to generate a new one but didn't change following two lines to match with the new backend name: 

echo "direct backendname \"Unknown\" \"PDF Creator\""

PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#backendname:}

(Second line is optional if you want to commit a output path to your backend script).

Maybe this helps someone else.

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