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- From: meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Problems with lp...
- In-Reply-To: twotone@rio.engr.washington.edu's message of 22 Jan 1993 18:15:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <MEYER.93Jan26082521@ibsen.geomatic.no>
- Sender: meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer)
- Organization: Geomatic a.s, Norway.
- References: <MEYER.93Jan21204612@ibsen.geomatic.no> <1jpdksINNl9n@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:25:21 GMT
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- >>>>> "King" == <twotone@rio.engr.washington.edu> writes:
- King> NNTP-Posting-Host: rio.engr.washington.edu
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- King> In article <MEYER.93Jan21204612@ibsen.geomatic.no> meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer) writes:
- >I've recently upgraded to UX9.0. I then ran the first part of
- >/etc/mklp to clean up my printing system.
- >
- >Then I made two printers with SAM, both to remote BSD systems. But
- >when I try to print, I get the following error:
- >
- > lp: Unable to set the effective group id to 110
- >
- >110 is the group which I'm part of. (It's in the /etc/group file)
- >
- >Can anybody help me, please??
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- King> The solution is either to change the group id of lp
- King> in /etc/passwd to 2, OR
- King> modify the /etc/mklp program to chgrp on the lp programs
- King> to lp instead of bin.
- King> I personally like to use /etc/mklp and don't use SAM at
- King> all to manage printers.
- King> My solution was to change /etc/passwd instead of mklp.
- King> I have a pretty good
- King> working version of mklp that I've modified quite a bit to add local and
- King> remote printers. If you like I could email it to you for reference.
-
- King> Anthony King
- King> Quinton Instruments, Seattle
-
- Thank you for the solution. I couldn't mail you for some reason
- (something wrong in your .forward file????)
-
- But I would be interested in you version of mklp as well.
-
- THANKS!!
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