cups print to file - but file size is zero

[Michael Sweet]

Nitin Kanaskar wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> I am trying to print to a file using cups 1.2.7 on fedora core 4. My kernel is 2.6.11, gcc 4.0.0. I have a default printer named filewriter with DeviceURI = file:/tmp/nitin. When I give command 'lpr filename', a file 'nitin' gets created in /tmp but of size 0. My error log file is as shown below -
> 
> 
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ReadClient: 6 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ReadClient: 6 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ReadClient: 6 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] AcceptClient: 8 from localhost:631.
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] CloseClient: 6
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:17 -0600] ReadClient: 8 POST /printers/filewriter HTTP/1.1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] print_job: auto-typing file...
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] print_job: request file type is text/plain.
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root'
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root'
> I [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 5.
> I [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 5.
> I [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] Job 5 queued on 'filewriter' by 'root'.
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] Job 5 hold_until = 0
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob(5, 0x84cf580)
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob() id = 5, file = 0/1
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] job-sheets=none,none
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] banner_page = 0
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: argv = "filewriter","5","root","anaconda-ks.cfg","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00005-001"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=utf-8"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en_US"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[5]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/filewriter.ppd"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[7]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[8]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[9]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[10]="DEVICE_URI=file:/tmp/nitin"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[11]="PRINTER=filewriter"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[12]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: envp[15]="IPP_PORT=631"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: statusfds = [ 6 9 ]
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 10 -1 ]
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly"
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ -1 11 ]
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:18 -0600] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly", 0xbff49780, 0xbff48cf8, 10, 11, 9)
> I [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/textonly (PID 15010) for job 5.
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] ProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] CloseClient: 8
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] [Job 5] cat: /var/spool/cups/d00005-001: Permission denied
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] UpdateJob: job 5, file 0 is complete.
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] CancelJob: id = 5
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] StopJob: id = 5, force = 0
> D [18/Nov/2006:00:42:19 -0600] StopJob: printer state is 3
> 
> 
> There is no error labeled message in this file, but one message disturbs me - cat: /var/spool/cups/d00005-001: Permission denied. Can anybody throw any light on this?

Your file permissions or SELinux configuration are broken - check
the /var/log/messages file for SELinux errors, and also check the
permissions of /var and /var/spool (/var/spool/cups and the d* files
should have the correct permissions because cupsd assigns them...)

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