Hi, Statux,
It's so totally working now! I set the permissions on the /usr/lp*
directories according to your configs. Now I remember that I was also
playing around with the permissions in /usr/* for another application.
I must've screwed up the printer directories in the process. Thanks,
Hidong
Statux wrote:
>
> my .seq file (which I think gets changed everytime something gets queued
> for printing, but never disappears) looks like this:
>
> -rw-rw---x 1 root lp 4 Nov 16 23:23 .seq
>
> root:lp with 0661 permissions
>
> the parent directory (/var/spool/lpd) is root:daemon with 0775
> permissions, the local directory itself is root:lp with 0755 permissions
>
> ownership issues might very well be causing the problem you're having..
> also, make sure that your printing utilities look like this:
>
> -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 16872 Oct 4 16:09 /usr/bin/lpq
> -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 18568 Oct 4 16:09 /usr/bin/lpr
> -r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 17208 Oct 4 16:09 /usr/bin/lprm
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3148 Oct 4 16:09 /usr/bin/lptest
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2507 Mar 7 2000 /usr/bin/lpunlock
>
> note that the first 3 are root:lp with 6555 permissions (not having, say,
> lpr as setuid/setgid could cause a slight problem with gaining access high
> enough to wirte a .seq file.
>
> long story short, just check permissions on everything :)
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