RE: Need some help with printing on a LaserWriter IIg

Subject: RE: Need some help with printing on a LaserWriter IIg
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 04:37:06 EDT

In reply to Morgan Reed's message of the 08/06/2000 at 01:34 -0400,

>Oh, I did check and fix the preceeding / in front of var. no change.
>
>Anyone got any other grand ideas on getting lpr to work? I will sacrifice a
>chicken to the linux gods if I thought it would work.

My guess is that lpd can't write to the specified spool directory.
Here's my /etc/printcap:

laser|lp|LaserWriter LW600 on AppleTalk:\
         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser:\
         :sh=true:\
         :lp=/dev/null:\
         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:pw#80:\
         :of=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ofpap:\
         :if=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ifpap:\
         :tf=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/tfpap:\
         :df=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/dfpap:

and here are the perms on my spool directory (sd=...):

# ls -la /var/spool/lpd/laser
drwxrwsr-x 2 lp lp 1024 Jun 8 09:24 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 root daemon 1024 Jan 6 22:41 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 lp lp 33 Dec 27 1997 .paprc
-rw-rw---- 1 lp lp 84 Oct 11 1998 .railmag
-rw-r----x 1 lp lp 4 Jun 8 09:24 .seq
-rw-rw---- 1 bin lp 90 Jun 8 09:24 cfA026fe.nan.co.uk
-rw-rw---- 1 root lp 11003 Jun 8 09:24 dfA026fe.nan.co.uk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lp lp 6 Jun 8 09:24 errseEjocI
-rw-r--r-- 1 lp lp 25 Jun 8 09:24 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lp lp 32 Jun 8 09:24 status
-rw-rw-rw- 1 lp lp 26 Jun 8 09:02 stdin

Note the use of setgid to ensure that spool files are created in
group lp no matter who creates them.

You can use the same trick for dirs that are to be mounted as
netatalk volumes. Contrary to popular belief, mode 777 is neither
necessary nor advisable. 

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