Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:07:56 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers Message-ID: <17664.10172.939032.620287@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <45001C82.30200@web.de> References: <20060907121906.71wgo7l4zegws08o@webmail.frontiernet.net> <17664.5027.243777.190581@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <45001C82.30200@web.de>
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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
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