Re: Printing problems

[Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>]

dman, 2002-Jan-14 14:04 -0500:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:13:20PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote:
> | On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:12:58AM -0500, dman wrote:
> | > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:00:10PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote:
> | > | Having trouble printing. As root everything is cool, but as a user
> | > | when I run just a lpr I get the following:
> | > | 
> | > | lpr
> | > | lpr: cannot open printer description file
> | > | 
> | > | Is this because my printcap file only allows root to print or is my
> | > | user just not in the right group?
> | > 
> | > What's 
> | >     ls -l /etc/printcap
> | > say?
> | 
> |   -rw-------    1 root     root
> | 
> | I thought of just giving myself rights but I cannot come right,
> | would I chown the file?
> 
> Only root is allowed to read it right now.
> 
> # chmod a+r /etc/printcap
> 
> -D

My printcap permissions are okay...

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          782 Jan 15 07:49 printcap

thanks for checking...jc

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