At 05:49 PM 8/7/96 -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > >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. >
There is a group called linux.debian.user that I can access with my News Xpress program operating under Win3.1. I just checked to be sure and all the messages in this thread were there. Is it just a mirror of this mail group and not a real newsgroup? >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 > What I meant when I said that lpr didn't work was simply that when I tried using it nothing came out of the printer. I didn't try to diagnose it, I just set up the way I always have in the past. I'm preparing to try these hints plus all the others I've received and will report back. Thanks Chris Beamis >