Subject: Re: papd vs lpd
From: Dejan Muhamedagic (dejan@hello-penguin.com)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 23:01:08 EDT
Hi,
It's probably that old problem with papd creating a file with too
restrictive permissions for the lpd. Try changing your papd
config file so that the pr capability reads something like:
:pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plp:
Substitute your printer's name for lp. BTW, upgrading to lprng
may be a good idea.
Dejan
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:12:44PM -0400, jrd-atalk@jrd.org wrote:
> I've recently "upgraded" a server to slackware 8.0, and everything
> works except that I can no longer print from my mac. Attempts to
> print cause the dreaded message
>
> Your printer job (untitled)
> was not printed because it was not linked to the original file
>
> to show up as a mail message.
>
> I've done some research into this, and found a number of hints
> (permission problem, bugs in lpd, bugs in papd etc), but no hard data.
> I'm pretty sure I no longer have permission problems, as I've ensured
> that all the gid and uids line up with what the various daemons are
> running as, and for good measure I chmod'ed everything in the spool
> directories to allow rw by everybody, but no help. I've dug around
> looking for various config options, but not found anything to turn up
> debug levels, to try to figure out what's the root of the problem.
> The papd and lpd code is all remarkably free of comments. Has anyone
> out there come up with a definitive set of causes and/or cures for
> this problem?
>
> slackware 8.0
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3
> lpr (lpd) 0.48
>
> TIA...
>
-- Dejan Muhamedagic mailto:dejan@hello-penguin.com Kaunitzgasse 9/15, 1060 Wien, Austria +43 664 2111 219
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