From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) Subject: Re: Getting lpr/lpd to work Date: 28 Dec 1992 06:00:27 GMT
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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