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From: Joe Talbott <josepht at cstone.net>
Subject: Re: Printer Daemon (Update)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:39:13 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:57:06PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote:
> Here's the output:
> ~> ls -ld /var/run
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  0 Nov 21 23:14 /var/run
> ~>  ls -ld /var
> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  0 Aug 21 22:44 /var
> 
> I agree; this is really bizarre-o.
> 
> One other data point, fwiw:  This machine, I'm pretty sure, started out with
> a fresh install of DF 2.6, which was then upgraded via source to 2.8 and
> this is the first time I've used it to print.  If I can find a spare
> machine, I'll try a fresh install.  Would a vkernel make a good test?

This issue is in HEAD as well.  I'm working on a fix.  In the mean
time you can add yourself to the wheel group to get printing working.

Thanks,
Joe
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/22/10 9:41 PM, Tim Darby wrote:
> > > Here's the output:
> > >
> > > srwxrwx---  1 root  wheel  0 Nov 21 23:14 /var/run/printer
> > > uid=1001(tim) gid=1001(tim) groups=1001(tim)
> > >
> > > and this is the error I'm seeing:
> > >
> > >>  /usr/bin/lpr -PHPLaser /home/tim/test
> > > lpr: Unable to connect to /var/run/printer: Permission denied
> > > lpr: Check to see if the master 'lpd' process is running.
> > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> > >
> >
> > What is the output from:   ls -ld /var/run
> > And maybe:                 ls -ld /var
> > although I'd be pretty surprised if /var was the problem.
> >
> > Seems strange that several people are seeing this.  I can't
> > imagine what's going on, so all I can do is make some wild
> > guesses at it.
> >
> > --
> > Garance
> > gad at FreeBSD.org  (lpr/lpd guy for FreeBSD)
> >