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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>
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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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