[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#496317: Bug#496317: cups-pdf: only works for root

[Martin-Éric Racine]

496317 severity normal
thanks

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jasen Betts <jasen at xnet.co.nz> 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.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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