From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 4 02:49:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F195716A4ED for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpvoland@spamcop.net) Received: from outbound4.mail.tds.net (outbound4.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B14A43D46 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:49:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpvoland@spamcop.net) Received: from outaamta02.mail.tds.net (outaamta02.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.32]) by outbound4.mail.tds.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k642ngJn030417; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:49:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.4] (really [69.129.199.105]) by outaamta02.mail.tds.net with ESMTP id <20060704024942.BRHO6289.outaamta02.mail.tds.net@[192.168.0.4]>; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:49:42 -0500 Message-ID: <44A9D741.8030909@spamcop.net> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:49:37 -0500 From: Rick Voland User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rotkap@gmx.de References: <449DE614.3040204@spamcop.net> <449F43EF.6030107@spamcop.net> <200607011444.36821.david.marec@free.fr> <44A97652.7070003@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/cups-base 1.2.0_2 and locally connected printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:49:47 -0000 Heino Tiedemann wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > >> If memory serves me right, David MAREC wrote: >>> Is there new device policies defined by cups ? >>> >> I noticed that the cups port now installs a cups user and group. I >> infer from that change that some portion of cups now runs as a >> non-privileged user, and that if you're driving a parallel port, it >> needs to writable (readable too?) by the new cups user. >> >> (I encountered this problem on my RELENG_6/i386 print server machine, >> made /dev/lpt0 owned by cups:cups, and it worked. > > root:cups is also workig (rw-rw----). > > Heino > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You may want to read http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.ports.bugs/browse_thread/thread/2afcd691d1fa4207/e74721b94f2b02a6?lnk=st&q=freebsd+cups&rnum=7#e74721b94f2b02a6 This message suggests a solution that involves changing permissions on /dev/lpt* (also an issue for usb printers) -------------begin quote 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" -------------end quote Also, you can check out this Problem Report that is cited in the above message: ports/99460 ---------- Rick Voland rpvoland@spamcop.net