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[tosi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tor Sigurdsson)]

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:52:46 +0000
From: Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20001203135246.D19749@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Printing problem after upgrade to 7.0



do:

        chown -R lp:lp /var/spool/lpd
        rclpd restart

The line printer daemon runs at the demoted level of lp, and as root owns
all the control-files, lp can't change those files.

-tosi

On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 01:52:11PM +0100, Guido Milanese wrote:
> On 03-Dec-00 Jerry Kreps wrote:
>  
> > No need to go insane!  Now you have to configure the printcap file...
> > Run YaST and select the 'Configure Hardware" option, which leads
> > to the option to configure the printer, or run YaST2 and chose
> > the 'Configure the Printer" button.
> 
> Thanks -- did it. Always the same answer: installing with yast2, the
> hello world statement is sent correctly, but the test page is not
> printed. From command line, lpq gives:
> 
> Local  printer 'lp' on pentiumiii.miarete: no spooling, no printing 
> 
> and lpr sometimes (not always) returns this info:
> 
> illegal ack code '': Pipe rotta
> 
> "Pipe rotta" = "broken pipe"
> 
> not very nice indeed....
> 
> I also tried:
> 
>  cat moglie.txt | lpr -Pascii
> 
> and this gave as output:
> 
> cat moglie.txt | lpr -Pascii
> 
> Dec  3 12:10:00 pentiumiii lpr ascii: Readlockfile: cannot open/create
> lock file '/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/lock': Permesso
> negato  
> 
> "Permesso negato" =  permission denied
> 
> I was logged as root. The permissions of the lock file are:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            5 dic  3 11:42
> /var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-ascii-mono-300/lock  
> 
> Permissions of the other lock files:
> /var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/lock
> 
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            5 nov  9 09:59 lock 
> 
> which seems wrong to me: I changed to
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root 
> but nothing changed -- still the message
>  Readlockfile: cannot open/create lock file
> '/var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-auto-mono-300/lock': Permesso negato   
> 
> /var/spool/lpd/ljet3-a4-raw/lock
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            5 dic  3 11:42 lock
> 
> To be sure, I also installed through yast. The problem is not, I think,
> in the printcap configuration: did it also manually using SETUP, but no
> change happened. There must be something wrong in the lock files
> permissions ore something like that -- why this "no spooling" message?
>  
> I am rather confused, sorry to be such a nuisance to the list. But I
> promise that, if all of this ends well, I will post a detailed message
> with  the whole story -- may be helpful to other people.
> 
> Best regards from Italy!
> g.
> 
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