/var properties?

my printer stopped working, Epson USB model. So I went to the command line and did a cat FILE | lp and I got an error saying it couldn't write to /var/tmp /var was root root dwr-wr--- I chmodded it to 777 and now I can print. what should /var file permissions be??? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc