Please ignore; user did not realise that even in 1998, printer must be plugged in to computer by way of cable.
Hamish On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 11:41:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Having trouble with someone's system using lprng, on bo. Jobs appear > to get accepted into the print queue, but never print to the printer. > It worked up until a day ago, when they copied everything to a new > disk with "cp -ax / /mnt". > > Are these permissions all correct? > > bash# ls -l /dev/lp* > crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp0 > crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp1 > crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp2 > crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp3 > > bash# ls -l /usr/bin/lp* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 30 09:37 /usr/bin/lp -> lpr > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137176 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpc > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 139700 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpq > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 181720 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpr > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13860 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpraccnt > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 134676 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lprm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 30 09:37 /usr/bin/lpstat -> lpq > > bash# ls -l /var/spool > total 12 > [...] > drwxrwsr-x 3 root lp 1024 May 30 09:37 lpd > > bash# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp/ > total 8 > -rw------- 1 lp lp 51 May 30 09:29 control.lp > -rw------- 1 lp lp 5 May 30 09:29 lp > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 45 Apr 12 1997 status > -rw------- 1 lp lp 4002 May 30 09:29 status.lp > -rw------- 1 lp lp 5 May 30 09:29 unspooler.lp > > > Personally I don't see how this can print (lpr doesn't have permissions > to write to /var/spool/lpd) but I just reinstalled the lprng package > from bo and that's what it set them to. On lpr (rather than lprng) > all the programs are setuid root and setgid lp. > > Any ideas? I hate it when people install machines they can't > administer and call me to fix it for free every bloody time. > > > hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 > CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]