Cannot print
Vittorio
v.demartino2 at virgilio.it
Sat Mar 5 14:39:07 PST 2005
Alle 20:51, sabato 5 marzo 2005, Kevin Kinsey ha scritto:
> v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:
> >I've just installed apsfilter on the latest FreeBSD 5.3 to print with my
> >epson stylus color 640 (driver eps640lp.upp) following both the handbook
> >chapter on printing & an artcle in freebsddiary.org.
> >But:
> >1) If I - running apsfilter SETUP - use the 'T'(est) option, the PC
> > tiringly, after un unbearable couple of minutes or so, starts printing
> > a first row of squares of the test picture only, then seems to hang,
> > emitting from time to time a (useless) sound. At this point it's better
> > to stop CTRL+Del.
> >
> >2) If I try to print via lpr -Plp plaintestfile the log under
> > /var/spool/lpd/lp says
> >"/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter: cannot open
> > /var/spool/lpd/lp/lock: Permission denied"
> >and doesn't print anything.
> >
> >Please help.
> >
> >Vittorio
>
> Is it a permissions issue? IIRC, I had an issue with permissions
> the first time I set up apsfilter.
>
> Here are my permissions on /var/spool and friends:
>
> # ll /var/spool | grep lpd && ll /var/spool/lpd && ll /var/spool/lpd/lp
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root daemon 512 Mar 22 2004 lpd/
> total 1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Mar 2 20:55 lp/
> total 41
> -rw-r----- 1 root daemon 84 Apr 8 2004 .railmag
> -rw-r----x 1 root daemon 4 Mar 2 20:55 .seq*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 0 Mar 21 2004 acct
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 33 Mar 2 20:55 lock
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 42235080 Mar 2 20:55 log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 25 Mar 2 20:55 status
Exactly that way!
Some other suggestion?
Vittorio
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