Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:14:18 +1000 From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <thats@notyourhomework.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help needed compiling printer source code Message-ID: <56d68e774a001387e8169bd8638484c7@notyourhomework.net> In-Reply-To: <20060426194552.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> References: <658be17fbe25500c985c5b8fc35ffc95@notyourhomework.net> <20060423091441.M1100@www.pukruppa.net> <499dd1ce422438ea0c0ac99b1f41ce8b@notyourhomework.net> <20060423133640.D1100@www.pukruppa.net> <20060423140319.S1100@www.pukruppa.net> <1209639b8bc7faaeb76ebf0932051131@notyourhomework.net> <20060425191942.P1100@www.pukruppa.net> <544660b49b4b30f3139c0fbebad337ae@notyourhomework.net> <20060426194552.M1100@www.pukruppa.net>
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On 27/04/2006, at 7:33 AM, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > >>>> I've set up a printer. >>>> location: lpt0 >>>> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs >>>> device URI: parallel:/dev/lpt0 >>>> Printing the test page does not work, the job is aborted with >>>> error: client-error-not-possible >>> The most probable reason for this is that some user permissions are >>> set incorrectly. We have to analyze this step by step. >>> 1) Try to print directly from the command line: >>> # printf "Hello World \f" > /dev/lpt0 >>> If your printer is connected correctly to your parallel port, >>> *something* should be printed out. >> >> as user I get "cannot create /dev/lpt0: Permission denied" > That is o.k.. You should try to setup your printer as root first > anyway: you always can solve problems with lower user permissions > later on. > >> as root I get a blank page > So at least your printer can print the form feed character "\f" > :-) > > As Robert Huff suggested in his mail one reason might be wrong > permissions of your spooler directory. > 2) If you haven't set it otherwise it should be found at > /var/spool/cups > 3) # cd /var/spool/ > # ls -l > should show this > drwx--x--- 3 root daemon 1536 26 Apr 19:44 cups > 4) Inside /var/spool/cups you should find some files with > names like > c00001 > c00002 > c00003 > and so on, each representing one print job. Yes, I have that. Changing permissions on /var/spool/cups/ to 777 hasn't changed things. Each time I try to print a test page from the cups "Printers" page the job is aborted. mystified.
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