Re: lprm says "Permission denied"

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

spiegl@hamster.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de (Andy Spiegl) writes:

> something must be wrong with my lpd-setup.  When a user starts
> a print job, s/he can't cancel it anymore.  Example: (user 'spiegl')
> 
>  $ lpr abc.txt
>  $ lpq
>  lp is ready and printing
>  Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
>  active spiegl     27   abc.txt                               47978 bytes
>  $ lprm 27
>  cfA027Aa00860: Permission denied
>  cfA027Aa00860: Permission denied

[snip]

> Is there anything wrong with the permissions?  I didn't change
> anything after installing Debian 1.2 and updating to Debian 1.4.

I ran into a problem with this.  It was something like lpr using a
hostname of cassandra.evansnet, but lprm using cassandra.  There's a
comment in lpr_5.9-13's changelog and in lpr.c that something was
changed to fix canonizing hostnames, so I unpacked the source package
and removed the "fix", IIRC.

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