From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 17:40:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27475 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 17:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27365 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 17:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA03062; Mon, 18 May 1998 10:09:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980518100940.H427@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:09:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Don Morrison , BEAUPRE Antoine Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: perm denied on lpt0????? References: <355F4E0F.1FF3920F@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <355F4E0F.1FF3920F@u.washington.edu>; from Don Morrison on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 01:52:31PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 May 1998 at 13:52:31 -0700, Don Morrison wrote: >> I got a &*(^% of a problem. I don't understand why my lpt0 port is giving >> me permission denied... One moment I got it, and I'm setting up my >> printer ( ... filters, 'know how much fun it is...), the second later, >> cat myfile | /dev/lpt0 > ^ > ------------/ > Use the > not the pipe. Alse make sure you are su'd to root. Better still, use lpr: $ lpr myfile Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message