On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:41 PM, KJ Tsanaktsidis wrote:

> Arden wrote:
>> When installing cups with the more_control_and_pkg_man system I
>> foresee permissions problems with the "Print Service" lp user vs the
>> pkguser.
>>
>> If I install the normal root way would all the cups packages install
>> as the lp user:group? probably not I think.
>>
>> Any tips would be welcomed by me. Thanks, Arden
>>
> I did it fine... Created the lp user as root, did the rest of the
> instillation as user "cups". The only problem i had from memory is  
> that
> i had to chmod the init.d and rc*.d dirs to 777 (temporarily lol) so
> cups could put its bootscripts in there. These are replaced by
> bootscripts from blfs-bootscripts anyway though (I install
> blfs-bootscripts as root) so there's none of the cups stuff left there
> anyway.
> Although i havnt tried printing anything yet... not sure how to do it
> from the command line and still havnt set up gnome yet...

Well...I may give it a try then, I guess I could always uninstall and  
start over. It is very tedious repairing permissions on a lot of  
files. Arden
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