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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: Getting lpr/lpd to work
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.060027.8808@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <Bzw8pz.EM5@utdallas.edu> <1992Dec27.093240.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:00:27 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Dec27.093240.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadr021@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
- >In article <Bzw8pz.EM5@utdallas.edu>, ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh) writes:
- >
- >> I can lpr files (as root) which get moved to appropriate directory. As
- >> ordinary user, I cannot even lpr files as I get
- >
- >> lpr: cannot create /usr/spool/lp/.seq
- >>
- > If /usr/spool/lp/.seq does not exist, lpr creates it. Unfortunately,
- >it belongs to the user not the daemon. (is this a bug?) When you lpr
- >something as root, you create the .seq file as owned by root and no one else
- >can print. Go into /usr/spool/lp and chmod 666 .seq
-
- I only just a few days d/led lpr.tar.Z from tsx-11.mit.edu, and only
- just installed it; but the problem is I get the following error:-
-
- /# lpr
- lpr : cannot create /usr/spool/lp/panasonic/.seq
-
- In fact, I don't even have a ~/lp directory. I guess this means,
- I installed lpr in the wrong fashion right? *sigh*.
-
- There was a diff file ('lpr.diff') in the ~/tmp file, but I don't
- know what to do with it. Can you please enlighten me on what I do?
-
- Thanks
-
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