From: Richard Davies
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:58:51 +0000
Message-Id: <00111415135600.00596@localhost>
Subject: Printer problems
Hi everyone,
Since upgrading to SuSE 7.0 I have had trouble with the printer and I can't
find out why any help or pointers of any kind will be greatly appreciated.
I have one printer HP520 that apparently sets up fine under Yast2 and prints
out a nice little page with a gecko on it but after that trying to print
anything as user is impossible as root everything works fine but I don't want
to write my documents then log out to log back in as root just to print them. I
have tried the following as root
# ls -l >/dev/lp0
works just fine so I know the port and printer are working.
as user it doesn't work unless I change the permissions on /dev/lp0 then it
works as user. I don't know if I should do this but it doesn't help my overall
problems anyway.
I then tried checking status of the printers and got the following which seems
ok apart from the entry in the ascii spool. Doesn't mean anything to me.
richard@localhost:~ > lpc status
ascii:
queuing is enabled
printing is disabled
1 entry in spool area
no daemon present
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
raw:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
richard@localhost:~ >
Tried listing lpd and have no idea where yast got this lot from I'm sure I only
had 3 entries in here when I was running 6.4. I'm afraid to delete them in
case I take out the abiliy of root to print and then I would be really stuck.
richard@localhost:~ > ls -l /var/spool/lpd total 72
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 17:42 cdeskjet-a4-ascii-mono-30
0
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 19:34 cdeskjet-a4-auto-mono-300
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 17:42 cdeskjet-a4-raw
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 15 03:23 cdj500-a4-ascii-mono-300
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 17:40 cdj500-a4-auto-mono-300
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 15 03:23 cdj500-a4-raw
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 28 10:37 djet500-a4-ascii-mono-300
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Sep 12 08:16 djet500-a4-ascii-mono-600
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Nov 13 10:23 djet500-a4-auto-mono-300
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Sep 12 15:30 djet500-a4-auto-mono-600
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Sep 12 08:16 djet500-a4-raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov 14 14:40 lpd.lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 17:47 y2prn_Hp_Deskjet_520.upp-
-ascii-Hp_Deskjet_520
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 17:47 y2prn_Hp_Deskjet_520.upp-
-auto-Hp_Deskjet_520
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 17:47 y2prn_Hp_Deskjet_520.upp-
-raw-Hp_Deskjet_520
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 18:02 y2prn_printer1.upp--ascii
-printer1
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 18:50 y2prn_printer1.upp--auto-
printer1
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Oct 17 18:02 y2prn_printer1.upp--raw-p
rinter1
richard@localhost:~ >
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Regards
Richard
http://www.tollyboy.com