From: mfh@world.std.com (Michael F Horgan) Subject: Re: Problems with lpd Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 14:55:52 GMT
mfrankow@piper.hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) writes:
: John Fauerbach (fauerbac@clyde.cs.unca.edu) wrote:
: : Well heres my problem:
:
: : lpd was work great under .99pl6 and pl7 as long as I put lpd in my
: : /etc/rc.local. When I moved up to .99pl7A or .pl8, it now dies as soon
: : as I start it up. I thought the lpd might be out of date. The file
: : looks like this:
:
: : -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37892 Nov 19 23:32 /usr/etc/lpd
:
: : Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
:
: : John Fauerbac
:
: I now have the same problem, except for mine runs, but never starts printing.
:
: Mike
I had the same problem - It's just a file permissions problem. I
fixed it by doing a 'chmod +s /etc/lpd; chmod +s /etc/lpr' as root.
There was a very good posting about this about two weeks ago that I
forgot to save, unfortunately.
Mike Horgan
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