Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uhnix1!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: I really killed lpsched *this* time. :-(
Message-ID: <816@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 89 15:57:12 GMT
References: <814@flatline.UUCP> <739@icus.islp.ny.us>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
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Fyi, I've fixed the problem...

In article <739@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>In article <814@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>|>I did it this time.  In an effort to change from /dev/rawlp back to
>|>/dev/lp, I did the following:
>Have you tried this?   cat file | lp ....

Yep, it worked.

>If this works, most likely the file you are trying to print with "lp file"
>isn't readable by world.

Nope, I already checked that.  The problem was:  (tah-dah)


From: uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!john (John Canning)

>Eric - either enable or accept is owned by lp, but needs to be owned
>by root.  This is a feature that was introduced by AT&T in 3.5.  From
>the looks of it, accept worked fine, but enable did not.  So:
>
>	$ su
>	# chown root /usr/bin/enable  (or is it /usr/lib/enable?)
>	# enable Epson
>	# exit
>
>And that should fix your problem.


And it did.

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