On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:42 +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? Martin-=C3=89ric?= Racine wrote: > 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.
Usually CUPS-PDF should assume the UID of the printing user thereby being allowed to write to the home. > > #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. This results from no file being generated at all. is there any AppArmour oder SELinux in place? Otherwise the more detailed debug-output might be of use (to be enabled in cups-pdf.conf). Regards, Volker > -- Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-888-5766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
