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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:18:23 -0500
From:      Rick Voland <rpvoland@spamcop.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: print/cups-base 1.2.0_2 and locally connected printer
Message-ID:  <449F43EF.6030107@spamcop.net>
In-Reply-To: <449DE614.3040204@spamcop.net>
References:  <449DE614.3040204@spamcop.net>

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It seems to be a permissions thing.

$ ls -l /dev/lp*
crw-------  1 root  wheel    0,  33 Jun 25 16:47 /dev/lpt0
crw-------  1 root  wheel    0,  34 Jun 25 16:47 /dev/lpt0.ctl
$ /usr/bin/su
Password:
brian# chmod go+rw /dev/lp*
brian# ls -l /dev/lp*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  33 Jun 25 16:47 /dev/lpt0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  34 Jun 25 16:47 /dev/lpt0.ctl


brian# pwd
/usr/local/libexec/cups/backend
brian# ls -l
total 216
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      3 Jun 24 16:13 http -> ipp
-rwx------  1 root  wheel  43824 Jun 24 16:13 ipp
-rwx------  1 root  wheel  28329 Jun 24 16:13 lpd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20196 Jun 24 16:13 parallel
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11153 Jun 24 16:13 scsi
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18605 Jun 24 16:13 serial
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  52946 Jun 24 16:13 snmp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  17497 Jun 24 16:13 socket
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20995 Jun 24 16:13 usb
brian# chmod go+rx ./lpd

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Now, I can print to the parallel port.  I didn't have to do this with
print/cups-base 1.1.23.0_9.


Rick



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