cupsd "Error: Couldn't open file"

[Helge Blischke]

John A. Murdie wrote:
> 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

On my Seolaris installation (though it is a 1.1.19) the /var/spool/cups
directory is owned by root and has rwx--x---
The files therein have rw------- and are owned by lp:sys .

And everything works.

Helge


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