[cups] Couldn't open file Permission denied on spool files

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Fri May 6 12:33:01 PDT 2016


> Am 06.05.2016 um 21:24 schrieb Collins, David <DavidD.Collins at irco.com>:
> 
> Hi Helge,
> 
> I think you are on the right track
> 
> I changed spool directory as follows:
> drwx--s---   3 root lp         273 May  6 20:09 spool
> 
> I printed another file and I see it's getting created with group nobody.
> -rw-r----- 1 root nobody  95344 May  6 20:08 d00170-001
> 
> The filter it's going through is:
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root lp  10456 Jun 17  2015 gziptoany
> 
> How do we get cups to create the file as group lp ?
> 
> Still getting the error:
> "Unable to open file "/ir_cups/spool/d00172-001": Permission denied"
> 
> 
> David Collins

Look into /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (as root) and look for a Group directive.
I that is nobody, try changing it to lp.

Helge




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