Re: printing with parallelport printers broken in etch
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:44:17PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
Hi
> this bug (462149) prevents printing (via cups) to printers attached to the
> parallelport in etch.
>
> On Friday 08 February 2008 08:31, nigel barker wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I can now print to a local printer
> > on a workstation (and hopefully on ltsp servers - not tried yet)
> >
> > I found a solution in #462149 that fixed it for me:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462149
> >
> > in /usr/lib/cups/backend
> >
> > I chowned parallel and usb to root:lp
> > then chmodded them to 2755
>
> I wonder if this is the correct fix (it seems
> so, /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf has the same perms) and wonder if the SRMs
> would like to see this fix in etch?
Is this fixed in sid? It looks like in sid /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf is root:root 700 btw...
Cheers
Luk
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