lprng

[Paul Melson]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:01:21PM -0400, Marcel Kunath wrote:
> got these warnings on install of lprng.
> 
> Warning - owner/group of '/var/run/lpd.printer' are 0/2, not 2/2
> Warning -   changing ownership '/var/run/lpd.printer' to 2/2
> Warning - owner/group of '/usr/spool/lp1' are 4/7, not 2/2
> Warning -   changing ownership '/usr/spool/lp1' to 2/2
> Warning - permissions of '/usr/spool/lp1' are 0755, not 0700
> Warning - lp: cannot open lp device '/dev/lp1' - Permission denied
> 
> I suppose the /dev/lp1 is crucial to make anything run. What should it
> be reset to?
> 
> right now:
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   1 Jul 23  1999 /dev/lp1


	Check your /etc/lpd.conf (maybe different in RH?)
	file for:

group=daemon
server_user=daemon

	You can either `chown root.daemon /dev/lp1` or you
	can change your lpd.conf for group=lp - either
	should work.


PaulM

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