[cups.general] Printer stopped:

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Tue Feb 21 08:23:42 PST 2006


Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:56, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>>Your /var/spool/cups/tmp seems to be missing.
>>
>>I have
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>[root at majax g]# ls -ld /var/spool/cups/tmp
>>drwxrwx--T  2 root sys 4096 Feb 17 21:41 /var/spool/cups/tmp/
>>[root at majax g]#
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>  Till
> 
> 
> Bingo! The magic Twanger! Thanks.
> 
> It fired up and ran a 3rd copy of your web page once I'd made that dir & 
> chown'd it to root:sys, and then restarted the printer from the web 
> server.  I may have killed that dir a couple of months ago as it had a 
> 2001 date & was empty when I was sweeping out the dirt of many years 
> usage.
> 
> Now, is this permanent till I re-modify the printer, or do I need this 
> to be called from rc.local at boot time?
> 

The dir is the standard place of CUPS for temorary files. It should be
created by the installation of CUPS.

   Till





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