[tex-k] Simple problem with dvips

Tomas G. Rokicki rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU
Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:04:30 -0800


This is because of a RedHat security fix, and there is no real
solution short of what you propose (creating a PostScript file
and then lpr'ing that).  Or, if you can get the latest rawhide
dvips patch from redhat, and install that, then if you add to
the command line

   -R0

then it will work.  What happened is RedHat changed the default
behavior of dvips to "secure" [although without first making
sure that this could be turned off by the user], and when in
secure mode, commands (including pipe commands) are not
executed (pretty much).

-tom