[gentoo-user] CUPS-PDF failing

[gentoo-user] CUPS-PDF failing

[Dirk Uys]

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Hi

I'm getting the following error from /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log when I try
to print to a PDF printer:

[ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal)
(/var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u/HOWTO__Install_Cups-PDF_-_Page_4_-_Ubuntu_Forums.pdf)

I tried changing permission of /var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u to "a+rwx", but that
made no difference. There are a bunch of emails and bugs about this on
Ubuntu related forums, but it seems that the problem is related to AppAmor?

Does anyone have any suggestions to resolve the problem?

Regards
Dirk

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[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

[Jörg Schaible]

Dirk Uys wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm getting the following error from /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log when I try
> to print to a PDF printer:
> 
> [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal)
> (/var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u/HOWTO__Install_Cups-PDF_-_Page_4_-
_Ubuntu_Forums.pdf)
> 
> I tried changing permission of /var/spool/cups-pdf/dc_u to "a+rwx", but
> that made no difference. There are a bunch of emails and bugs about this
> on Ubuntu related forums, but it seems that the problem is related to
> AppAmor?
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions to resolve the problem?

Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have 
proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask 
setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, simply because others 
might access the directory also.

With all settings as default, it should look like this:

$ ll /var/spool/cups-pdf/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   54 2007-10-01 19:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root   root   78 2007-08-25 16:50 ../
drwx------ 2 jdoe   lp      6 2007-10-01 19:01 jdoe/
drwxr-x--x 2 root   lp      6 2010-03-01 13:41 SPOOL/


- Jörg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

[Dirk Uys]

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have
> proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask
> setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, simply because
> others
> might access the directory also.
>
> With all settings as default, it should look like this:
>
> $ ll /var/spool/cups-pdf/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   54 2007-10-01 19:01 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root   root   78 2007-08-25 16:50 ../
> drwx------ 2 jdoe   lp      6 2007-10-01 19:01 jdoe/
> drwxr-x--x 2 root   lp      6 2010-03-01 13:41 SPOOL/
>
>
> - Jörg
>
>
I changed my permission to match those above, but I get the same error in
the logs.

Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean "and match the UserUMask"? My
umask is currently set to 0022.

Regards
Dirk

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS-PDF failing

[Dirk Uys]

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have
> proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask
> setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, simply because
> others
> might access the directory also.
>
> With all settings as default, it should look like this:
>
> $ ll /var/spool/cups-pdf/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   54 2007-10-01 19:01 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root   root   78 2007-08-25 16:50 ../
> drwx------ 2 jdoe   lp      6 2007-10-01 19:01 jdoe/
> drwxr-x--x 2 root   lp      6 2010-03-01 13:41 SPOOL/
>
>
> - Jörg
>
>
I changed my permission to match those above, but I get the same error in
the logs.

Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean "and match the UserUMask"? My
umask is currently set to 0022.

Regards
Dirk

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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CUPS-PDF failing

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Dirk,

Dirk Uys wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have
>> proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask
>> setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, simply because
>> others
>> might access the directory also.
>>
>> With all settings as default, it should look like this:
>>
>> $ ll /var/spool/cups-pdf/
>> drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   54 2007-10-01 19:01 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 7 root   root   78 2007-08-25 16:50 ../
>> drwx------ 2 jdoe   lp      6 2007-10-01 19:01 jdoe/
>> drwxr-x--x 2 root   lp      6 2010-03-01 13:41 SPOOL/
>>
>>
>> - Jörg
>>
>>
> I changed my permission to match those above, but I get the same error in
> the logs.

It fixed the issue for me once.

> Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean "and match the UserUMask"? My
> umask is currently set to 0022.

It's a setting in /etc/cups/cups-pdf

- Jörg