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From: wescott@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Occasionally lp cannot find my print file. Why?
Keywords: lp
Message-ID: <1522@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 89 22:32:23 GMT
References: <1512@anasaz.UUCP>
Reply-To: wescott@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Organization: Entry Level Systems Development, NCR Corp., Columbia, SC
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In article <1512@anasaz.UUCP> duane@anasaz.UUCP (Duane Morse) writes:
> Occasionally I try to enqueue a file for printing by

> lp xxx

> and lp comes back with a message saying that it cannot find "xxx". It
> also cannot find it when I specify the file by ./xxx. I end up having
> to cat the file and pipe it to lp. The file permissions are read/write
> for everybody. Anybody have any idea what the problem might be?

Directory permissions in . or .. or ../..  etc.
Try checking read and search permissions for
the directories in the whole path.






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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM