Bug#469547: cupsys: Cannot read cupsd.conf if a netmask masks a nonzero bit
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4etch2
Severity: normal
If cupsd.conf contains an Allow directive with an ip address whose
nonzero bit is masked with a netmask, cupsd fails to start with the
following message:
foobar cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'
- exiting!
For example,
Allow From 172.16.1.1/255.240.0.0
causes the problem, while
Allow From 172.16.0.0/255.240.0.0
is OK.
Of course, this is not a big problem, if users know this behavior. The
real problem is that cupsd claims that it cannot read '/etccups/cupsd.conf',
when it simply cannot handle the netmask. I spent one hour trying to
find what the real problem was, by modifying my configuration file.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii cupsys-common 1.2.7-4etch2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.7-4etch2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.7-4etch2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.21 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7etch1 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils [poppler 3.01-9etch1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.7-4etch2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii smbclient 3.0.24-6etch9 a LanManager-like simple client fo
-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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