The error message you are getting now is different from the one you quoted
in your first message, which was:
lpd: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
Now you say you are getting:
> lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
> child process exited abnormally
lpd is the print daemon; lpr is the application users actually run (it in
turn calls lpd). Please check the status of lpr now and see how it its
ownership &/or permissions might be set incorrectly.
At 02:17 PM 7/23/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Probably the problem is in this line:
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 2048 Jul 22 11:03 lp
>>
>> The corresponding entry on my system is:
>>
>> drwxrwsr-x 2 lp lp 1024 Nov 19 1999 lp
>>
>> To change this:
>>
>> chmod 2775 /var/spool/lpd/lp
>
>Well, I changed the permissions, and then the owner, but neither
>helped. Thanks for trying, anyway. Still get error:
>
> lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
> child process exited abnormally
>
>Here's the present status of lp:
>
>[root@localhost /root]# ls -l /var/spool/lpd | grep lp
>drwxrwsr-x 2 lp lp 2048 Jul 22 11:03 lp
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jul 22 10:33 lpd.lock
>
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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