At 10:59 AM 7/22/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Apparently while fiddling with my domain name, I broke user
>printing. Root can print ok, but user gets stderr:
>
>lpd: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
>
>lpd folder has rwxr-xr-x permission.
>Removing /var/spool/lpd/lpd.lock didn't help.
>/var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq exists and is rw-rw---x--x 
>

You skipped over the one we need to see. What is the output (all of it, not
just the permissions) of

        ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp  ?

Probably lpd cannot read from or write to that directory.

Also tell us

        ls -l /wherever_it_is/lpd


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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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