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From: fsfacca@LERC08.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 3.1G lp problem/fix
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Date: 7 Sep 89 15:10:08 GMT
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I don't remember if its been mentioned in this newsgroup yet or not, but
everyone here who has upgraded to 3.1G has run across this problem, so I 
thought I'd mention it (again?):

After the upgrade, you may notice that the lp spooler is not working properly.
This is because the permissions on the /usr/spool/lp directory are inconsistent.

Some of the symptoms may be:  the lp command hangs, the lpstat command hangs, 
the scheduler is stopped, and some other minor anomilies which I don't quite
understand (having to do with FIFO and SCHEDLOCK).

To "fix" the problem, change the owner of the /usr/spool/lp directory to lp:

	chown lp /usr/spool/lp

Everything seems to work quite nicely again.  
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