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Date:      Sat, 01 May 1999 13:13:08 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: printjob.c
Message-ID:  <372B6054.E1BF56B3@3-cities.com>
References:  <199905011926.MAA12513@athena.tera.com>

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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" <filter> 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

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