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Subject: Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers
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Jona Joachim writes:

>  > 	_In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on
>  > /dev/lpt0*.  They default to "crw-------"; setting them to
>  > "crw-rw-rw-" makes the parallel printer appear.
>  > 	There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions
>  > automatically, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
>  
>  You have to specify
>    perm  lpt0  0666
>  in /etc/devfs.conf

huff@jerusalem>> dir /dev/lpt*
crw-------  1 root  wheel    0,  79 Sep  5 20:45 /dev/lpt0
crw-------  1 root  wheel    0,  80 Sep  5 20:45 /dev/lpt0.ctl
huff@jerusalem>> grep lpt /etc/devfs.conf
#       make lpt0 available to CUPS
perm            /dev/lpt0        0666

	Doesn't seem to work.  :-(


					Robert Huff