Hi Chris -- You said: > I tried to post to the linux.debian.user newsgroup without success. There isn't any newsgroup -- just this mailing list.
> Anyway, I just installed Debian 1.1.2 in late July (my first Debian > installation), with a few problems. ... > > 1. dselect didn't configure lpr correctly so I did it myself using the > printing HOWTO which I've done successfully many times before with Slackware > releases. Now root can print but users get the message, "usr can't create > /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/.seq". This is with the permissions on that file set to > rw_rw_r as the HOWTO says. I tried changing the permissions to rw_rw_rw but > then a user gets the message "usr can't create > /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/tfA006Aa01777". As far as I know I have the permissions > set correctly in all the directories leading to this file, but this seems > like a permission problem. I'm stuck! I'm not sure what you mean that dselect didn't set up the printer "correctly", in this sense: the various files and directories for lpr and lpd can be configured in any one of several ways, using a variety of approaches. The HOWTO's refer to Linux in general, and not to the Debian distribution in particular. Debian uses these permissions for directories in /usr/spool/lpd: drwxrwsr-x 2 root lp 1024 Jul 27 14:20 lp1/ drwxrwsr-x 2 root lp 1024 Aug 7 16:15 lp2/ where lp1 and lp2 correspond to 2 different stanzas in /etc/printcap. User 'lp' is defined this way in /etc/passwd: lp:*:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh and group 'lp is defined this way in /etc/group: lp:*:7:lp If you've changed many of those things, you might want to try the settings above and see if they work. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann