problems - file/dir permissions...

[Avinash Chopde <avinash@xxxxxxx>]

Running Slackware 8.0 Linux, and ran apsfilter SETUP as root.

Didn't work, I use a umask of 027 (no read/write/exe for others).

The first error was apsfilter could not read the rc files.
Since SETUP was run by root, they were not readable by others,
so manually changed to:
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         7093 Nov 10 17:15 apsfilterrc

Still did not work, forgot the /etc/apsfilter/lp/ directory permissions.

Well, then it worked, though the printout was garbled (still, progress!)

Noticed another error in /var/spool/lpd/lp/log:
/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter: /var/spool/lpd/lp/cfA013bombay1:
Permission denied

The /var/spool/lpd/lp folder has these permissions:
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     lp           4096 Nov 14 20:56 .

So, looks like apsfilter is not even being run as the "lp" group (slackware
config problem?)

Anyway, the story above shows the multiple file permission problems I've had to
deal with - is there some basic step I forgot to perform, or is umask 027 for
all users (including root) basically caused the apsfilter to be incorrectly
installed?

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Avinash Chopde
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