CUPS does not have permission to write error_log

[mannheim]

Although printing is working fine at the moment, my /var/log/syslog is filled with messages like this:

May 6 15:00:03 localhost cupsd: Unable to open log file "/var/log/cups/error_log" - Permission denied
May 6 15:00:38 localhost last message repeated 84 times
May 6 15:01:43 localhost last message repeated 156 times
May 6 15:02:48 localhost last message repeated 156 times
May 6 15:03:53 localhost last message repeated 156 times

(and so it carries on and on). The file /var/log/cups/error_log has permissions -rw-r--r-- and its owner/group are "root" and "lp". The cupsd process is running with UID "cupsys". If I change the owner of the error_log to "cupsys" then the messages cease. There seems to be a similar problem with access_log. Some files in /var/log/cups/ are owned by cupsys, some by root.

(I have set the logging level to "debug", which explains why cupsd is trying to write so much to the error log file.)

[mannheim (kronheim)]

I should have said, that I am running the dapper cupsys package version 1.1.99.rc3-0ubuntu2. But a glance at my log files suggests this has been going on for a little while.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Please delete all cups logs file and restart cupsys.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Rejecting as duplicate