[cups.general] Unable to backup/save printers.conf - Permission denied

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Mon Jun 12 01:29:19 PDT 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 22:11 -0400, James wrote:

> According to the log file, when a printer is added:
> 
> New printer 'hp' added by 'root'.
> Unable to backup printers.conf - Permission denied
> Unable to save printers.conf - Permission denied
> Unable to restore printers.conf - No such file or directory

This sounds like those conf files might have the wrong SELinux context
for some reason.  If you run 'restorecon -v /etc/cups/*' to reset them
to the correct contexts, does that help?

Tim.
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