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From: kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: lp gotcha with accept
Summary: had to become "lp" to successfully run /usr/lib/accept
Keywords: lp accept 3b1
Message-ID: <244@hico2.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 15:37:31 GMT
Followup-To: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Organization: High Country Software
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Not documented anywhere that I found, but I found necessary:

when running "/usr/lib/accept" on the unixpc, you MUST be su'd
to user lp.  Ordinary su is evidently not sufficient.  I would
recommend writting this on the manual page for accept.
accept doesn't give any error message when not run as lp,
but nothing happens.
This took me a couple of late hours to find.

I have no idea what the official behavior is supposed to be.

                               Kris A. Kugel
                              (201) 842-2707
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