Can't access spool folder

[Helge Blischke]

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

Hi Daniel,

I suppose on Snow Leopard, CUPS and/or components of it are running in a 
sandbox. 
Search your system for things like cupsd.sb or xxx.sb (xxx the name of one 
of the standard backends of CUPS) and use that as a template for a sandbox 
profile for prtofile. The current version needs read access to the CUPS 
spool directory to get the value of the job-originating-hostname attribute.

If you are not sure what to do, you could mail the sb files of interest for 
me to look into.

Helge