[BUG] CUPS log handling misbehaviour

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Nov 20 05:17:29 PST 2004


Gabucino wrote:
> Reproduction:
>               stop cups
>               ln -sf /dev/null /var/log/cups/error_log
>               start cups
> 
> What happens?
>               CUPS will set /dev/null to 644 permissions.
> 
> Please notify me at <gabucino at nospam at mplayerhq.hu> when the bug is fixed.

This isn't a bug.

If you want the error_log to go to /dev/null, then use:

     ErrorLog /dev/null

Otherwise, CUPS correctly applies the permissions set by the
LogFilePerms directive.

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