Can't access spool folder

[Daniel Stoeck]

> Daniel Stoeck wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am using Helge Blischke's prtofile backend and when I try to print I get
> > an error message like this: "/private/var/spool/cups/c00061: No such file
> > or directory"
> >
> > /private/var/spool/cups has 710 permissions and belongs to root:_lp
> > /private/var/spool/cups/c00061 has 600 permissions and belongs to root:_lp
> > (61 is the jobid)
> >
> > Obviously the printer cannot spool into its spool directory. But how can I
> > avoid this permission issue?
> >
> > The backend has 700 permissions to make it run as root.
> > The Device_URI is "prtofile:///Volumes/MacHD/output/ps/"
> > The given PPD is the common Adobe Distiller PPD
> >
> > Why does the printer not have permission to write into its spool folder?
> > Can I just change the permissions of the spool folder to anything else to
> > fix this?
> >
> > Greetings from Germany,
> > Daniel
>
> Daniel,
>
> could you please look into your cupsd.conf, if you there have a directive
> reading
> RequestRoot some_absolute_or_relatiove_path
> where "some_absolute_or_relative_path" is different from
> "/private/var/spool/cups" ?
>
> What disturbes me is that error message you posted tells "No such file or
> directory". That sould mean that the environment variable CUPS_REQUESTROOT
> isn't set correctly.
>
> Helge
>

I am sorry, but there is no "RequestRoot" entry at all in my cupsd.conf. If you want to take a look into the cupsd.conf file (or any other file) I will send it to you.

Daniel