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cups: "Can't create temporary file"

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 41367 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41367: cups: "Can't create temporary file"
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 22:05:28 +0300

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On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 08:54:57PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so I was trying to print something after a long time of not printing anything.
> 
> I got the error message "Can't creeate temporary file" in http://localhost:631 .
> 
> The reason was that /var/spool/cups/tmp was
> 
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp  tmp
> 
> when it should have been
> 
>   drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp  tmp
> 
> otherwise HP PSC 2170 wouldn't print.

The cups service, in (gnu services cups) line 916, creates
/var/spool/cups as #o755. Sounds like it should be #o775.


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