cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Thu Sep 7 07:09:10 PDT 2006
Jona Joachim writes:
> > _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on
> > /dev/lpt0*. They default to "crw-------"; setting them to
> > "crw-rw-rw-" makes the parallel printer appear.
> > There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions
> > automatically, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
>
> You have to specify
> perm lpt0 0666
> in /etc/devfs.conf
huff at jerusalem>> dir /dev/lpt*
crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 79 Sep 5 20:45 /dev/lpt0
crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 80 Sep 5 20:45 /dev/lpt0.ctl
huff at jerusalem>> grep lpt /etc/devfs.conf
# make lpt0 available to CUPS
perm /dev/lpt0 0666
Doesn't seem to work. :-(
Robert Huff
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