[cups.general] CUPS notifier.

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Dec 29 13:58:10 PST 2009


On Dec 21, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Jamal Mubarak wrote:
> I am having problems getting confirmation emails for print jobs.  I have 5 Macs running 10.6.2 with almost identical installations.  Postfix/sendmail/mail work fine from the command line in all 5 Macs.  However, 3 of them give this error in /var/log/mail.log:
> 
> Dec 20 01:59:03 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[3836]: fatal: execvp /usr/sbin/postdrop: Operation not permitted
> Dec 20 01:59:04 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[3835]: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1
> Dec 20 01:59:04 MacBookPro postfix/sendmail[3835]: fatal: _lp(26): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Unknown error: 0

Look in the system log for sandbox errors - 10.6 sandboxes all child processes, and it sounds like postfix is trying to do something that is not allowed by the current security profile.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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