trouble adding beh

[Kurt Pfeifle]

hcheng <zx2 at shaw.ca> wrote (Friday 14 July 2006 04:59):

>> It is certainly not CUPS preventing you from adding beh to its known
>> backends then. It must be something your OS (Fedora) is doing to you,
>> making your life more difficult in the interest of security...  :->>
>>
> 
> Yup. Disabling SELinux did the trick! Thanks!
> 
> However, there is something fishy going on... I re-enabled SELinux (just wanted to then disable each
> option one-at-a-time to see which one is responsible for the permission problem); and I have not even
> started disabling any options, and beh was recognized. This is the same setting as I have before, except
> I re-enabled SELinux. So now I can't even reproduce the problem.... ... :s  ah well... at least it
> works. :P

Not knowing *anything* about SELinux nor Fedora/Redhat (never used 
them), I'd do the following to reproduce the problem:

 * disable SELinux
 * remove beh
 * stop/start CUPS to make it forget beh
 * enable SELinux
 * see if problem re-appears

Cheers,
Kurt