SElinux and Brother printer driver problem on F8

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 29 17:31:38 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 29 July 2008 18:12:50 Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> 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.
>
Bernd, I second Tim's suggestion that you should contact Brother.  Some time 
back I fed some info back to them and they did appreciate it.

Anne


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