cupsd "Error: Couldn't open file"

John A. Murdie john at cs.york.ac.uk
Tue Feb 13 08:31:43 PST 2007


Helge Blischke wrote:
> There seems to be something wrong with your installation. As of CUPS 1.2.x,
> the filters run as user lp, only the daemons run as root (and the backends if
> their permissions are accordingly set). The files in question
> should be owned by user lp and the sytem group (whichever the system group's
> name is). In your case they are owned by root and group lp instead.
>
> Helge

I've looked on my Solaris install, and the spooled control and data files are owned by root:lp also. No error messages there.

John A. Murdie




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