[cups.general] "unable to open print file..."

[Michael Sweet]

Mac Mason wrote:
> Trying to print a test page on my new install (self-compiled on Solaris
> 9, using a Xerox Phaser 5400, with a Xerox-provided PPD), gives the
> following in both /var/log/cups/error_log and the web interface:
> 
> "unable to open print file "/cups-local/var/spool/cups/d00004-001" -
> Permission denied" 
> 
> Given that cupsd is running as root, and root owns (and can write to)
> that directory, this doesn't make much sense.

Actually, unless you've changed the default configuration the
filters run as user "lp" group "sys", so verify that /cups-local
and the remaining directories allow read and search (execute)
access.

> A possibility: the contents of that directory are called 'c00003' and
> 'c00004'; nothing starting with 'd's.
> 
> Could the 'permission denied' actually be a 'no such file'?

Nope, the "d" files are normally removed after the job finishes
(successfully or not).

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