printers

Bradley W. Fisher brad at bradf.UUCP
Wed Jun 6 13:27:51 AEST 1990


In article <2066 at polari.UUCP>, corwin at polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:
> I am using Xenix 386 2.3.2 and have just made a default printer named
> [...deleted...] 
> if I go in with root and try and print, lp claims (on the screen) that it
> cannot read the directory.

Sounds like one of your directories leading down to the file doesn't have
execute permission for "others" ... maybe "temp"? The lp spooler needs to
have it ... it's setuid(bin) I beleive. Try "chmod o+x" when you see the
offender. ;-)
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