From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 13:13:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C942E14BEE for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 13:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1129.bossig.com [208.26.241.129]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA08866; Sat, 1 May 1999 13:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <372B6054.E1BF56B3@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 13:13:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printjob.c References: <199905011926.MAA12513@athena.tera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline wrote: > > Further examination of my lpr problems have turned up > some strange results. > > As root, lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > spits out essentially blank pages; it prints one test line > and quits. As myself, I run into permission problems. > > catting a file ( as root ) to /dev/lpt0 seems to work > in very slowmotion which would seem to indicate some screwup > in the BIOS setup. > > lpq always shows `no entries'. > > The "cannot exevc %s" string is coming from an execv() > failure in lpr/lpr/printjob.c, but that's about it. > > Ideas, printer wizards?? You created your filter or etc as root and didn't chmod it so a user could run it. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message