Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:40:04 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers Message-ID: <45002F44.5040508@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <17664.10172.939032.620287@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20060907121906.71wgo7l4zegws08o@webmail.frontiernet.net> <17664.5027.243777.190581@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <45001C82.30200@web.de> <17664.10172.939032.620287@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: >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 > > Did you as root do sh /etc/rc.d/devfs start AFAIK rules are only applied when the node is created, which it already would have been when you added/changed your rule. Also not /dev/lpt0 but just lpt0. Devfs rules only apply to /dev! --Alex
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