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From: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: /usr/lib/accept on 3b1?
Summary: Run them as user "lp"
Message-ID: <1143@icus.ICUS.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 02:36:38 GMT
References: <228@tapest.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
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In article <228@tapest.UUCP> sbw@tapest.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
|>I'm trying to add several logical printers to my unix-pc,
[...]
|>However, I cannot get either 'accept' or 'reject' to do
|>anything with any printer (including the two printers I
|>have running (one on a serial line, the other on the
|>parallel port).  both programs just return with no
|>messages.
|>
All you need to do is "su" to user lp.  I don't know why root won't
work, but that's just a small problem.  Once you are user "lp" it will
work as expected.

-Lenny
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