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Re: Help reg lpr.

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Subject: Re: Help reg lpr.
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:43:13 +0530
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103191025250.14506-100000@brihadeswara.iitm.ernet.in>; from sudha@meenakshi.iitm.ernet.in on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:28:46AM +0530
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Sudhakar G rearranged electrons thusly:

> hi *
> 	$lpr results in error msg :
> 		lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq
> 	Any one has any clue whats wrong and how to correct it.  The lpr
> works find if i am root.  /var/spool/lpd is owned by root and daemon
> group. /var/spool/lpd/lp is owned by root and group lp.
 
Obviously a permissions / ownership problem

drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         1024 Dec 19 09:35 /var/spool/
drwxrwxr-x    3 root     daemon       1024 Dec 30 15:08 /var/spool/lpd/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     lp           1024 Jan 12 22:41 /var/spool/lpd/lp/

	-s

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin

References:
- Help reg lpr.
  - From: Sudhakar G

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