[Lprng-devel] Debian Bug #458003: lprng: lpd does not start with -L

Hello,
 Regarding http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458003
the problem is that the create flag is not set so if the file does not
exist then the program dies.

The fix is in line 741 of lpd.c:
if( Checkwrite(logfile, &statb, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND, 0, 0) != 2) {

The first 0 should be 1 for create to be enabled.  

My quesiton is, should the log file exist first?  Is there some security
issue in not mandating the file exists beofre the program starts?
I just want to make sure it wasn't designed this way.

I believe it is an oversight and it is fine for the print daemon to make
its own log file.

 - Craig
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