Unable to open temporary control file - Permission denied

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu May 13 06:33:46 PDT 2004


Helge Blischke wrote:
> hans at spacetec.no wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I have installed cups
>>
>> cups-common-1.1.18-2.2.C21mdk
>> cups-drivers-1.1-84.3mdk
>> libcups1-1.1.18-2.2.C21mdk
>> cups-1.1.18-2.2.C21mdk
>>
>>on a Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1. After a while printing from windows clients (use cups-lpr) stops. From the log:
>>
>>cups-lpd[21650]: Receive print job for printer
>>cups-lpd[21650]: Unable to open temporary control file - Permission denied
>>
>>Which directory is this?
> 
> The CUPS tempory files directory, usually /var/spool/cups/tmp

In the case of cups-lpd, it will be the default temporary directory
defined by TMPDIR when (x)inetd is run; if TMPDIR is not set, temp
files go in /var/tmp.

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