On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 01:42:08 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> One problem I have experienced is that if I manually start cups via > its init script, as root, the cups daemon ends up running as a less > privliged user that cannot write to /root/tmp, and the failure mode is > quite horrible (silent failure to print anything). This could possibly be fixed by having programs fall back on a hardcoded /tmp if $TMP is not writable. And/or by having init scripts clean up their environment. And of course I would consider silent failure to be a bug in CUPS. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]