496317 severity normal thanks On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jasen Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: cups-pdf > Version: 2.4.8-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > the cups-pdf printer driver only works for root. > > when invoked by a user it produces no output in the ~/PDF > directory > > as a regular user: > $ lpr mozilla.ps > $ ls -al ~/PDF > total 24 > drwx------ 2 jasen jasen 4096 2008-08-22 23:50 . > drwxrwxr-x 141 jasen jasen 20480 2008-08-25 00:06 ..
There's your explanation: you chose to make your home directory writable by yourself only. > #cat /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log > Mon Aug 25 00:10:31 2008 [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non > fatal) (/home/jasen/PDF/mozilla.pdf) ...which the log confirms. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
