[plug] Printing problem RH6

[John Summerfield]

> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Mark Saxon wrote:
> 
> > yep sends it to the printer as does 
> > /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter < my_postscript_file > /dev/lp0
> > but only when su root so I guess that means lpd is working okay
> 
> > why not from X ? 
> 
> Because you aren't logged in as root? Looks like your file premissions are
> screwed.
>  
> > /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters: permission
> > denied
> 
> So what are the permissions?

Printing is working on my RHL 6 system (to a remote printer)

[summer at possum summer]$ find /var/spool/lpd/    -ls
 18745    1 drwxrwxr-x   3 root     daemon       1024 Jul  4 19:48 
/var/spool/lpd/
219396    1 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Jul 18 09:58 
/var/spool/lpd/lp
219397    1 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          187 Jul  5 03:35 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/general.cfg
219398    1 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          356 Jul  5 03:35 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/postscript.cfg
219399    1 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          145 Jul  5 03:35 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/textonly.cfg
219400   10 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         9443 Jul  5 03:35 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter
219401    1 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            4 Jul 21 12:57 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/lock
219470    1 -rw-rw---x   1 root     lp              4 Jul 18 09:58 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
219473    1 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root           15 Jul 18 09:58 
/var/spool/lpd/lp/status
 18850    1 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            4 Jul 21 12:57 
/var/spool/lpd/lpd.lock

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John Summerfield
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