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2.\" cupsd-helper man page for CUPS.
3.\"
4.\" Copyright 2007-2014 by Apple Inc.
5.\" Copyright 1997-2006 by Easy Software Products.
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e3101897 7.\" Licensed under Apache License v2.0. See the file "LICENSE" for more information.
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8.\"
9.TH cupsd-helper 8 "CUPS" "15 April 2014" "Apple Inc."
10.SH NAME
11cupsd\-helper \- cupsd helper programs
12.SH SYNOPSIS
13.B cups\-deviced
14.I request-id
15.I limit
16.I user-id
17.I options
18.br
19.B cups\-driverd
20.B cat
21.I ppd-name
22.br
23.B cups\-driverd
24.B list
25.I request_id
26.I limit
27.I options
28.br
29.B cups\-exec
30.I sandbox-profile
31[
32.I \-g
33.I group-id
34] [
35.I \-n
36.I nice-value
37] [
38.I \-u
39.I user-id
40]
41.I /path/to/program
42.I argv0
43.I ...
44.I argvN
45.SH DESCRIPTION
46The \fBcupsd\-helper\fR programs perform long-running operations on behalf of the scheduler,
47.BR cupsd (8).
48The \fBcups-deviced\fR helper program runs each CUPS
49.BR backend (7)
50with no arguments in order to discover the available printers.
51.LP
52The \fBcups-driverd\fR helper program lists all available printer drivers, a subset of "matching" printer drivers, or a copy of a specific driver PPD file.
53.LP
8072030b 54The \fBcups-exec\fR helper program runs backends, filters, and other programs. On macOS these programs are run in a secure sandbox.
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55.SH FILES
56The \fBcups-driverd\fR program looks for PPD and driver information files in the following directories:
57.nf
58
59 \fI/Library/Printers\fR
60 \fI/opt/share/ppd\fR
61 \fI/System/Library/Printers\fR
62 \fI/usr/local/share/ppd\fR
63 \fI/usr/share/cups/drv\fR
64 \fI/usr/share/cups/model\fR
65 \fI/usr/share/ppd\fR
66.fi
67.LP
68PPD files can be compressed using the
69.BR gzip (1)
70program or placed in compressed
71.BR tar (1)
72archives to further reduce their size.
73.LP
74Driver information files must conform to the format defined in
75.BR ppdcfile (5).
76.SH SEE ALSO
77.BR backend (7),
78.BR cups (1),
79.BR cupsd (8),
80.BR cupsd.conf (5),
81.BR filter (7),
82.BR ppdcfile (5),
83CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)
84.SH COPYRIGHT
bd5a2f28 85Copyright \[co] 2007-2017 by Apple Inc.