Actually lp should be owned by root and should be suid. i.e
permissions should be 4755.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:17:05 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: Print: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
>
>
> > 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
>
> Haines Brown
>
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