Pascal De Vuyst wrote: > I'm using Dapper 6.06 LTS with cupsys 1.2.1-0ubuntu2. > > As indicated by Walter when I do: > > $ ls -l /var/log/cups/error_log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root lp 190608 2006-07-28 10:45 /var/log/cups/error_log > > $ sudo chown cupsys /var/log/cups/error_log* > > $ ls -l /var/log/cups/error_log > -rw-r--r-- 1 cupsys lp 195464 2006-07-28 10:46 /var/log/cups/error_log > > And then restart cups: > $ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart > > I see permissions of /var/log/cups/error_log changed again to: > $ ls -l /var/log/cups/error_log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root lp 124369 2006-07-28 10:36 error_log > > So it seems that permissions are changed everytime a log file has been > accessed after restart of cups. > In Edgy which has a newer cupsys I don't have this permission problems and > owner of error_log is cupsys. > > In attachment you find my cupsd.conf, I doubt you will find anything in > it since it is the one that got installed by default and I never changed > it. > > Ante, since you don't have this problem on Dapper, have you any idea how to > further debug this problem? > Since all error_log* files have owner root now I'm unable to see at which > point in time something happened. > >
Just to follow up. My cups was an update of a previous release but yes, I also get the same behaviour, i.e., restarting it changes ownership. I suppose I could just purge and reinstall from scratch..... Yes, I did update my config file to conform with newer release. walter -- cupsd can't access /var/log/cups/error_log permission denied https://launchpad.net/bugs/54277 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
