cupsd-helper - cupsd helper programs (deprecated)
cups-deviced request-id limit user-id options cups-driverd cat ppd-name cups-driverd list request_id limit options cups-exec sandbox-profile [ -g group-id ] [ -n nice-value ] [ -u user- id ] /path/to/program argv0 ... argvN
cupsd-helper(8) Apple Inc. cupsd-helper(8) NAME cupsd-helper - cupsd helper programs (deprecated) SYNOPSIS cups-deviced request-id limit user-id options cups-driverd cat ppd-name cups-driverd list request_id limit options cups-exec sandbox-profile [ -g group-id ] [ -n nice-value ] [ -u user- id ] /path/to/program argv0 ... argvN DESCRIPTION The cupsd-helper programs perform long-running operations on behalf of the scheduler, cupsd(8). The cups-deviced helper program runs each CUPS backend(7) with no arguments in order to discover the available printers. The cups-driverd helper program lists all available printer drivers, a subset of "matching" printer drivers, or a copy of a specific driver PPD file. The cups-exec helper program runs backends, filters, and other pro- grams. On macOS these programs are run in a secure sandbox. FILES The cups-driverd program looks for PPD and driver information files in the following directories: /Library/Printers /opt/share/ppd /System/Library/Printers /usr/local/share/ppd /usr/share/cups/drv /usr/share/cups/model /usr/share/ppd PPD files can be compressed using the gzip(1) program or placed in com- pressed tar(1) archives to further reduce their size. Driver information files must conform to the format defined in ppdc- file(5). ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | print/cups | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+------------------+ NOTES CUPS printer drivers, backends, and PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS. Printers that do not support IPP can be supported using applications such as ippeveprinter(1). Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://github.com/apple/cups/ar- chive/v2.3.3.zip. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.cups.org/. SEE ALSO backend(7), cups(1), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), filter(7), ppdcfile(5), CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2007-2019 by Apple Inc. 26 April 2019 CUPS cupsd-helper(8)