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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:34:19 GMT
From:      Osamu Hasegawa <kdn_pc215hqj11010@mbr.nifty.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/99745: print/cups: CUPS 1.2.0_x: Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied
Message-ID:  <200607031234.k63CYJRl017763@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200607031240.k63Ce4Gi079390@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         99745
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       print/cups: CUPS 1.2.0_x: Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 03 12:40:04 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Osamu Hasegawa
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Jun 28 11:21:26 JST 2006     root@minami.fls.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
CUPS 1.2.0 with parallel port printer has a same issue as ports/99460.

/usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf is as follows.

------
<DefaultPrinter MJ-800C>
Info MJ-800C
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lpt0
State Idle
StateTime 1151906919
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
------

The following error is found in /var/log/cups/error_log.
"Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied"

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Similar to ports/99460 ports/99624/.

Add following lines to /etc/devfs.rules:

[system=10]
add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups

And following to /etc/rc.conf:

devfs_system_ruleset="system"

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