Run the following command to create a config file called gcp-cups-connector.config.json before the starting service: # gcp-connector-util init --log-file-name "/var/log/cloud-print-connectord" # mv /root/gcp-cups-connector.config.json /usr/local/etc/gcp-cups-connector.config.json More info at: https://github.com/google/cloud-print-connector/wiki/Configuration