Printing stopped working, after working intermittently. It turned out to be a permissions problem:
8.1 (devfs=nomount): [13:42 root@penguin:/home/peter]# ll /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Aug 30 10:54 /dev/lp0 and this was the fix... [13:42 root@penguin:/home/peter]# chmod a+rw /dev/lp0 Cooker's /dev/lp0 points to /dev/printers/0, which has similar daft permissions. I didn't spot any warnings about inadequate permissions. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. rm -rf /bin/laden sharon Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586, kernel 2.4.8-26mdk-pnr-win4lin. XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk. KDE: 2.2.1. Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime: 19 min
