SElinux and Brother printer driver problem on F8

Bernd Bartmann bernd.bartmann at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 17:12:50 UTC 2008


2008/7/29 Tim Waugh:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 18:42 +0200, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
>> Now, whenever I print something I get a SElinux warning:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing brprintconf_mfc (cupsd_t) "write" to ./inf (usr_t).
>
> Looks like you need something along the lines of:
>
> chcon -t cupsd_etc_t /usr/local/Brother/Printer/*/inf
>
> (if that works, you might want to mention that to Brother so they can
> fix their documentation).

Thanks Tim! That did the trick. Altough the files in the inf/
directory do not get changed I now get the printouts in A4 format and
no SElinux warning anymore.

Best regards,
Bernd.




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