Subject: Re: Printing via netatalk?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Dirk Gassen <gadi0013@fh-karlsruhe.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/02/1998 01:28:00
>On Nov 30, Dirk Gassen wrote
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I finally managed to print to a LaserWriter II via netatalk. I start the
>> job with
>> 	lpr -Plp1 test.ps
>> and the printer starts printing.
>> The entries in /var/log/lpd-errs indicate a successfully processed job. 
>> Only one problem: The log file for the printer (/var/log/lpd-iintx-errs)
>> has the message
>> 	status: Permission denied
>
>I think it's a netatalk process trying to update /var/spool/iintx/status.
>I don't know which UID runs the if and of filters, maybe it should be
>chown'ed to 'daemon.daemon' or something like that ...
>As a very last resort, you could still make status mode 666.
Great, that fixed it. I didn't think of it since the lpd system created
that file.

Thanks, Dirk