cups print to file - but file size is zero

[Nitin Kanaskar]

> > Nitin Kanaskar wrote:
> >
> > > I checked the /var/log/messages - but did not find
> > > any error message there.
> > > Also checked rights of the directories - /var , /var/spool, and
> > > /var/spool/cups. /var & /var/spool are owned by root user, root group.
> > > /var/spool/cups is owned by root user, lp group. Inside the
> > > /var/spool/cups directory, there were no d* files, instead c* files. and a
> > > tmp directory. All these files were owned by root user, sys group. The tmp
> > > folder was owned by root user, lp group. I am trying to understand this -
> > > but the program which tries to access these files is lpr, right? which
> > > does not have rights to access these directories and the files in them.
> > > Is this what is happening, so that I need to change access rights of
> > > these folders and then they would be accessible by this user.
> > > Please clarify if my guess about the user and these directories
> > > is correct.
> >
> >
> > Seems that nobody, except root can write to the directory /var/spool/cups.
> > cupsd (with non-root rights) is the process which tries to write a file
> > into this directory.
> >
> >
> > Working permissions can look like this:
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x  root root  /var
> > drwxr-xr-x  root root  /var/spool
> > drwx--x---  root lp    /var/spool/cups
> > drwxrwx--T  root lp    /var/spool/cups/tmp
> >
> >
> > best regards!
> > Bernd
>
> hello Michael and Bernd,
>
> Thanks a lot for your interest and the help
> offered. I finally managed to print to a file.
> The culprit was the default SELinux configuration
> on fedora for cups daemon and lpd which was not
> allowing to read file from /var/spool/cups folder.
> I disabled the
> SELinux policy for these and I got my file
> in /tmp/nitin.
> Thanks a lot guys once again for your pointers
> and suggestions!
>
> Best Regards,
> Nitin
>
>

hello guys,

I just wanted to let you know
that disabling SELinux configuration for
cupsd and lpd solved another problem for me
- the resetting of cups configurations when
I used to restart cups. I tried first to
shut down cups-config-daemon as
I learnt that cups-config-daemon has some issue
on red hat platforms, but it failed.
So whenever I used to add a new printer, it was
shown as the output of 'lpstat -v -d'. But
after restarting cups, it used to be deleted.
But after disabling the SELinux, all is fine.
This is just for reference if anybody faced
similar problem.

Thanks,
Nitin