Re: lprng on bo
Please ignore; user did not realise that even in 1998,
printer must be plugged in to computer by way of cable.
Hamish
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 11:41:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Having trouble with someone's system using lprng, on bo. Jobs appear
> to get accepted into the print queue, but never print to the printer.
> It worked up until a day ago, when they copied everything to a new
> disk with "cp -ax / /mnt".
>
> Are these permissions all correct?
>
> bash# ls -l /dev/lp*
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp0
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp1
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp2
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp3
>
> bash# ls -l /usr/bin/lp*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 30 09:37 /usr/bin/lp -> lpr
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137176 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpc
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 139700 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpq
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 181720 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpr
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13860 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lpraccnt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 134676 Mar 25 1997 /usr/bin/lprm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 30 09:37 /usr/bin/lpstat -> lpq
>
> bash# ls -l /var/spool
> total 12
> [...]
> drwxrwsr-x 3 root lp 1024 May 30 09:37 lpd
>
> bash# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp/
> total 8
> -rw------- 1 lp lp 51 May 30 09:29 control.lp
> -rw------- 1 lp lp 5 May 30 09:29 lp
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 45 Apr 12 1997 status
> -rw------- 1 lp lp 4002 May 30 09:29 status.lp
> -rw------- 1 lp lp 5 May 30 09:29 unspooler.lp
>
>
> Personally I don't see how this can print (lpr doesn't have permissions
> to write to /var/spool/lpd) but I just reinstalled the lprng package
> from bo and that's what it set them to. On lpr (rather than lprng)
> all the programs are setuid root and setgid lp.
>
> Any ideas? I hate it when people install machines they can't
> administer and call me to fix it for free every bloody time.
>
>
> hamish
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