----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Tester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greg Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Printing Woes
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Greg Gailer wrote:
>
> > My problem is that it will only
> > print as the root user, not as a normal user. I have set all the
permissions
> > as set down in the Printing HOWTO and set 'dev/printer' to group -
users
> > and mode 660.
>
> Sounds like /var/spool/lpd/<printer> (where <printer> is the name of your
print
> spool) doesn't the right pemissions. Have you checked that?
>
Greetings again Ian
I have finally worked out my printing problem. In the /var/spool/lpd/lp
directory I had the following files set
incorrectly:
filter - was set to rwx______ (I set it to rwxrwx___)
all the .cfg files were set to rw_______ (I set them to rw_rw____)
This was all I had to do (as well as the permissions as set out in the
Printing HOWTO) to get the printer
to print from a normal user. Why, Why, Why doesn't the printing subsystem
come ready for all users
to print. This seems like a lot of fiddling around just to get something as
basic as a printer to work.
Anyway, I have now written a script file to set up all this automatically,
so I won't have to go through
all this again. Thanks for trying to help.
Greg Gailer
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