lprm won't let user remove his own print jobs
I seem to have the permissions messed up for lpd, because user's can't
remove their own jobs. /var/spool/lpd and subdirs are set to
"drwxrwxr-x root.lp". I tried drwxrwxrwx, drwxrwsr-x and drwxrwsrwx but
none of these helped.
Script started on Mon Mar 24 11:29:48 1997
$ lpr Finding_Fonts.txt
$ lpq
lj is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
active mso 82 Finding_Fonts.txt 9045960 bytes
$ lprm -
cfA082Aa09695: Permission denied
cfA082Aa09695: Permission denied
$ lprm 82
cfA082Aa09695: Permission denied
cfA082Aa09695: Permission denied
$ ls -ld /var/spool/lpd
drwxrwxr-x 6 root lp 1024 Jan 12 21:19 /var/spool/lpd
$ ls -lR /var/spool/lpd
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 Mar 24 11:31 hpljet4l
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 Feb 05 17:59 ibmpro
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 Jan 12 21:20 lp
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 Jul 29 1996 remote
/var/spool/lpd/hpljet4l:
total 8873
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 132 Mar 24 11:31 cfA082Aa09695
-rw-rw---- 1 mso lp 9045960 Mar 24 11:31 dfA082Aa09695
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Mar 24 11:31 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 25 Mar 24 11:31 status
/var/spool/lpd/ibmpro:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root lp 4 Mar 22 12:49 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 25 Feb 05 17:58 status
/var/spool/lpd/lp:
total 0
/var/spool/lpd/remote:
total 0
$ su -c "lprm 82"
Password:
dfA082Aa09695 dequeued
cfA082Aa09695 dequeued
$ lpq
no entries
$
Script done on Mon Mar 24 11:32:53 1997
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