switched from FC5-FC6 and now my printer doesn't work

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Dec 5 09:41:48 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 23:04 +0100, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> Nope, I found the culprit.
> It seems to be an old bug.
> I setted the permissions on /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel to 0700
> and now it works.
> Hope that could help someone else. Francois

No, the parallel backend doesn't need to run as root.

What does 'ls -l /dev/lp0' say?  It should say this:

crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec  5 09:11 /dev/lp0

Tim.
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