Re: cups failed last week, now amanda

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On Thursday 11 December 2008, Craig White wrote:
>On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 23:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Craig White wrote:
>> >On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 21:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >> (brought to you by Amanda 2.6.2alpha-20081208)
>> >>
>> >> So that is fixed.  I wonder if cups is too?  No, selinux, which is back
>> >> to enforcing now, is denying cups any access to lp3.
>> >>
>> >> Nope, even after manually copying one of the 3 identical HL2140.ppd
>> >> files into /etc/cups/printers/lp3.ppd, it prints blank sheets of paper,
>> >> and logs, when I try to change the default paper size to letter from
>> >> A4:
>> >>
>> >> E [10/Dec/2008:21:12:25 -0500] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
>> >>
>> >> And I've run thru the delete/add at localhost:631 until I have run out
>> >> of options, even going so far as to set the perms identical, no change
>> >> in the error messages.
>> >>
>> >> Your turn.
>> >
>> >----
>> >I just checked on my system and evidently, adding alias net-pf-10 off to
>> >modprobe.conf doesn't do squat any more because I too have ipv6
>> >addresses...don't know how long that's been going on but I have updated
>> >this system from like Fedora Core 4 or 5 continuously up and now I'm
>> >F10. I'm sort of at a loss on how to disable ipv6 but I would imagine it
>> >wouldn't take long to google.
>> >
>> >'manually copying' config files for cups seems to be wrong - it might
>> >cause selinux problems. I generally copy ppd files
>> >to /usr/share/cups/model and they will stay there forever and cups reads
>> >that folder when you set up printers and offers all PPD's that reside
>> >there.
>>
>> I have them there, but they are not .gz'd, and cups doesn't show them to
>> me, I have to browse to find it, there of course, but then cups throws
>> that error, I think when its trying to construct /etc/cups/printers/lp3. 
>> I have deleted the printer, cups can't delete it so I go behind it and do
>> with with mc or rm.  Now this time, cups has created an
>> /etc/cups/ppd/lp3.ppd from the HL2140.ppd file, and the change to a
>> default paper size was apparently done cuz thats what its set to right
>> now.  So that is different from previous.
>>
>> A test page doesn't show an error, but spits out blank paper.  The
>> printers own test page works as expected.
>>
>> I just fired up Kompare, and HL2140.ppd and lp3.ppd are identical except
>> for the A4 becoming 'letter'.  And setting /etc/cups/cupsd.conf for debug2
>> output still says it worked, but I get a blank sheet of paper for the cups
>> test image.  That BTW, is a lot of progress, its the first paper its fed
>> in 2 weeks.
>>
>> Where else besides there in cups.conf can I turn on a lot of debugging so
>> I can see what might be wrong?
>
>---
>something sounds wrong here...
>
>cd /usr/share/cups/model
>ls -l HL2140.ppd lp3.ppd
>are both files there? root:root? 644?

# ls -l /usr/share/cups/model/HL2140.ppd /etc/cups/ppd/lp3.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10274 2008-12-10 21:22 /etc/cups/ppd/lp3.ppd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10258 2008-12-03 21:56 /usr/share/cups/model/HL2140.ppd
>
>they don't need to be gzipped
>
>diff -u HL2140.ppd lp3.ppd
>I'd be interested in that output

[root@coyote model]# 
diff -u /usr/share/cups/model/HL2140.ppd /etc/cups/ppd/lp3.ppd
--- /usr/share/cups/model/HL2140.ppd    2008-12-03 21:56:01.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/cups/ppd/lp3.ppd       2008-12-10 21:22:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@

 *OpenUI *PageSize: PickOne
 *OrderDependency: 30 AnySetup *PageSize
-*DefaultPageSize: A4
+*DefaultPageSize: Letter
 *PageSize Letter/Letter: "                      "
 *PageSize Legal/Legal: "                      "
 *PageSize Executive/Executive: "                      "
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@

 *OpenUI *PageRegion: PickOne
 *OrderDependency: 40 AnySetup *PageRegion
-*DefaultPageRegion: A4
+*DefaultPageRegion: Letter
 *PageRegion Letter/Letter: "                      "
 *PageRegion Legal/Legal: "                      "
 *PageRegion Executive/Executive: "                      "
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 *PageRegion EnvISOB6/B6: "                      "
 *CloseUI: *PageRegion

-*DefaultImageableArea: A4
+*DefaultImageableArea: Letter
 *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "18 12 594 780"
 *ImageableArea Legal/Legal: "18 12 594 996"
 *ImageableArea Executive/Executive: "18 12 504 744"
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@

 *%==== Information About Media Sizes ========

-*DefaultPaperDimension: A4
+*DefaultPaperDimension: Letter
 *PaperDimension Letter/Letter: "612 792"
 *PaperDimension Legal/Legal: "612 1008"
 *PaperDimension Executive/Executive: "522 756"

>My thinking is that cups is pretty forgiving on format of those files
>(i.e. Windows or Macintosh line endings probably don't matter)
>
>If the only difference between HL2140.ppd and lp3.ppd is really the
>'DefaultPaperSize' kind of thing, you can set that up in 'Printer
>Options' and just use the HL2140.ppd as it doesn't make sense to me to
>have different PPD files for things that are controlled in 'Options' -
>perhaps this is the resultant files in /etc/cups/ppd/ directory you are
>describing...don't put files there manually because I think that will
>cause issues with both cups and selinux.

What's there now, was placed by cups via localhost:631

>/etc/cups/cupsd.conf went on a diet somewhere between F8/F9 as I
>recall...
>
>On F10, the entire contents of my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is... (for
>comparative purposes, lines will break)
>
>MaxLogSize 0
>LogLevel info
>SystemGroup sys root
># Only listen for connections from the local machine.
>Listen localhost:631
>Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
># Show shared printers on the local network.
>Browsing On
>BrowseOrder allow,deny
>BrowseAllow all
>DefaultAuthType Basic
><Location />
>  # Restrict access to the server...
>  Order allow,deny
></Location>
><Location /admin>
>  Encryption Required
>  # Restrict access to the admin pages...
>  Order allow,deny
></Location>
><Location /admin/conf>
>  AuthType Default
>  Require user @SYSTEM
>  # Restrict access to the configuration files...
>  Order allow,deny
></Location>
><Policy default>
>  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job
>Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription
>Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job
>Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
>    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer
>CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
>    AuthType Default
>    Require user @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer
>Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs
>Deactivate-Printer
> Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer
>Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
>    AuthType Default
>    Require user @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>  <Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
>    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
>  <Limit All>
>    Order deny,allow
>  </Limit>
></Policy>

Way too many diffs.  Should I post it as an attachment?

Later, zz's time in WV. I've been tossing drywall around today.

Thanks Craig.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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