Heino Tiedemann wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If memory serves me right, David MAREC wrote: >>> Is there new device policies defined by cups ? >>> >> I noticed that the cups port now installs a cups user and group. I >> infer from that change that some portion of cups now runs as a >> non-privileged user, and that if you're driving a parallel port, it >> needs to writable (readable too?) by the new cups user. >> >> (I encountered this problem on my RELENG_6/i386 print server machine, >> made /dev/lpt0 owned by cups:cups, and it worked. > > root:cups is also workig (rw-rw----). > > Heino > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
You may want to read http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.ports.bugs/browse_thread/thread/2afcd691d1fa4207/e74721b94f2b02a6?lnk=st&q=freebsd+cups&rnum=7#e74721b94f2b02a6 This message suggests a solution that involves changing permissions on /dev/lpt* (also an issue for usb printers) -------------begin quote Add following lines to /etc/devfs.rules: [system=10] add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups And following to /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset="system" -------------end quote Also, you can check out this Problem Report that is cited in the above message: ports/99460 ---------- Rick Voland [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
