CUPS jail keeps losing permissions

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shad0wca7

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I've followed a combination of the many CUPS guides around and the permissions seem to be patchy at best, I've taken to putting this in /etc/rc.local:

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# change permissions in jail for printer
chmod -R 0770 /dev/usb*
chmod -R 0660 /dev/ugen*
chmod -R 0660 /dev/unlpt*
chmod -R 0660 /dev/ulpt*
chown -R root:cups /dev/lpt*
chown -R root:cups /dev/ugen*
chown -R root:cups /dev/usb*
chown -R root:cups /dev/unlpt*


Every now and then I'd go to print and the jail just couldn't see the printer. So I made a cron job to run rc.local every 12 hours - the printer would still 'turn invisible'. Now I've set that cron job to every hour.

I don't know how successful that will be yet but it feels very hacky and like there should be a correct way of doing this.. I can't be the only person on 9.10 running CUPS in a jail!?
 

shad0wca7

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Unfortunately not! Met with a wall of silence here I threw in the towel and bought a network laser printer that could handle itself.
 
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