Michael Greb on 8 Jul 2008 05:49:48 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Printing ghosts


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On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Art Alexion wrote:
<snip>
> After a boot, both lp0 and lp1 have 660 permissions.  Everyone  
> prints fine to
> lp0, but everyone, including the printserver has a permissions problem
> printing to lp1.  'sudo chmod 666 /dev/lp1' fixes the problem but  
> it's weird
> nonetheless.

What about group ownership?  Perhaps lp0 is owned by root:printer or  
console or some such and lp1 is owned by root:root?

<snip>
> If these jobs (and the garbage jobs) aren't being stored in the cups  
> buffer,
> and they aren't being stored in the printer's buffer, where are  
> they? (and
> how can I get rid of them?)


I haven't played with cups directly for some time but I would guess  
they are lingering somewhere in /var/spool

Mike

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