Ubuntu crashes every few days

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 12/6/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Here on dapper 6.06, all the files in /var/log/cups/*  are
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cupsys lp
>
> except for
>
> -rw-r----- 1 cupsys lpadmin   0 2006-12-06 07:35 /var/log/cups/access_log
> -rw-r----- 1 cupsys lpadmin   0 2006-12-05 08:08 /var/log/cups/error_log
> -rw-r----- 1 cupsys lpadmin   0 2006-09-25 07:36 /var/log/cups/page_log
>
> The parent directory /var/log/cups  is
>
> $ ls -ld /var/log/cups
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-12-06 07:35 /var/log/cups
>
>
> So I think you are on the right track with your observations.

I noticed too late (it's really hard to catch every thought in a long
message -- sorry!) that the original poster had already tried changing
the ownership of error_log to cupsys. Possibly, it's the group or
directory permissions that are the problem then?

-Eamonn