On Jan 2, 4:30 pm, Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Zach, > > In my first search I found this link: > > http://www.laen.org/2005/11/15/cups-request-entity-too-large/ > > If you get this CUPS error, it may mean that you don't > have write permission to your CUPS spool directory > (/var/spool/cups, by default). > > For my properly running cups installation I have these > permissions: > > # ls -ld /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp > drwx--x--- 3 root lp 4096 Jan 1 13:20 /var/spool/cups > drwxrwx--T 2 root lp 4096 Dec 28 11:06 /var/spool/cups/tmp > > It may be worth checking again. > > With some trial-and-error, I find I can set the permissions > properly thus: > > # chmod 710 /var/spool/cups > # chmod 1770 /var/spool/cups/tmp > > If the ownership is not corret, use chown: > > # chown root.lp /var/spool/cups > # chown root.lp /var/spool/cup/tmp > > Good luck (and successful printing!) > > Printing is a hard problem. CUPS is generally > easy to administer. I used to use lprng and one of those > filters. Sometimes you have to jiggle things a bit to get them to > settle down. :-)
Hi Joel, I checked and cupsys is a member of group lp. I now have: drwx--x--- 5 root lp 60 2008-12-31 18:09 /var/spool/cups drwxrwx--T 4 root lp 40 2006-05-17 08:46 /var/spool/cups/tmp However it seems since cupsys is no longer the owner of the directories it will not load the printing database when gnome-cups- manager tries to read it. And I tried even running lpadmin as root but I get that same stupid "Request entity is too large" error message that is torturing me lol. Seems cups runs on Ubuntu as user cupsys. I also tried running gnome-cups-manager and lpadmin with these permissions: drwx--x--- 5 cupsys lp 60 2008-12-31 18:09 /var/spool/cups drwxrwx--T 4 cupsys lp 40 2006-05-17 08:46 /var/spool/cups/tmp But I get the same errors. This is sure vexing. Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
