Cups and devfs.rules - PC-BSD Forums

nicsar · #1 08-19-2009, 06:47 AM

Hello, I get an error restarting devfs

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/devfs restart
devfs rule: error converting to integer: cups

I was looking at devfs.rules file and I see the lines

Code:

add path 'lpt*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'ulpt*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'unlpt*' mode 666 group cups

so

Code:

# id cups
id: cups: no such user
# grep cups /etc/group
#
# ls -l /dev/ulpt0
crw-r-r--  1 root  operator    0, 115 19 Ago 07:29 /dev/ulpt0

It seems that no cups group exist, am I missing something?
Thanks in advance.

PC-BSD version 7.1.1

TerryP · #2 08-19-2009, 10:01 PM

was this a new install or upgraded???

It seems the cups group no longer (or never did) exists.

nicsar · #3 08-19-2009, 10:23 PM

It was a new installation of PCBSD and I did not modify the devfs.rules.
Does your /etc/devfs.rules file contain the word cups?

TerryP · #4 08-20-2009, 02:44 AM

That sounds very strange, PC-BSD has used CUPS as the primary printing backend for as long as I can remember. In fact, the installation procedure for cups-base creates the entries for the account with the following sh commands:

Code:

if ! pw groupshow cups; then pw groupadd cups -g 193; fi
if ! pw usershow cups; then pw useradd cups -g cups -u 193 -h - -d ${NONEXISTENT} -s /usr/sbin/nologin -c "CUPS Owner"; fi

I don't use CUPS for printing, so my devfs.rules has no entries for it. In fact my old printer is hooked up to a headless OpenBSD box, which is setup using the BSD line printer daemon (lpd) rather then CUPS. Just a matter of personal taste, hehe.