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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> According to Kent Stewart:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> 
>                 Mis-statement:
> 
>                 # cat file > /dev/lpt0
> 
>                 printf ``file'' (with staircase); with it's usual
>                 hesitation..
> 
> > >
> > >    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.
> >
> 
>                 I don't think so::
> 
> pe 13:44 <tao> [982] ll printcap                                           /etc
> 2 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  291 Jun  6  1998 printcap
> 
>                 and in /usr/local/libexec, hpif is 0555
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 kline  kline  499 May  1 10:43 hpif
> 
>                 This hpif isn't the original, but it ought to
>                 work.  At least with lpr.   But zero.
> 
>                 I figure that the trouble has something to do
>                 with lpr, but I can't imagine what:
> 
> tao# cd /usr/bin;ll lpr
> /usr/bin
> -r-sr-sr-x  1 root  daemon  20480 Mar 24  1998 lpr
> tao# file lpr
> lpr: setuid setgid FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable
> 
>                 lpr looks undamaged.  There are no locks in
>                 /var/spool/output.
> 
>                 What am I missing?

My printcap file has a filter lj.sh and it is setup as 

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  daemon   65 Apr 30 12:45 lj.sh

I figured you had something like that and it didn't have any user
rights.

Kent


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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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