[cups.general] Problem printing PDF's

[Michael Sweet]

The pdftops filter is owned by an ordinary user, which cupsd won't run for security reasons. Run "chown root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops" as root to fix the problem.

On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:45 AM, Alex Casanovas wrote:

>>> Hello,
>>> We've problem printing one pdf file using RedHat 4.0.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We print with:
>>> 
>>> lp -difm83 filename.pdf and it doesn't work
>>> 
>>> We get the error:
>>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed
>>> 
>>> 
>> What does it say in error_log?
> 
> The error_log says:
> 
> E [12/Mar/2012:09:45:15 +0100] ifm83: El archivo "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops" tiene permisos no seguros (0100755/uid=501/gid=501).
> E [12/Mar/2012:09:45:15 +0100] [Job 7390] Unable to start filter "pdftops" - Success.
> E [12/Mar/2012:09:45:15 +0100] [Job 7390] Stopping job because the scheduler could not execute a filter.
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair