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- From: Paulo Antonio Costa Goncalves <pacg@inesc.pt>
- Subject: Re: papif/lpd prob running cap60.126 w/ SUN NIT (HELP!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.124454.2358@inesc.pt>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:44:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.155625.18505@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu> Craig Morgenstern,
- morgenst@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu writes:
- >We've just switched from IPtalk via a kbox to native ethertalk (phase 2) on
- >a SUN3 (4.0.3) and a SPARCstation-2 (4.1.1), and now laserwriter access is
- >broken on both machines. In lpd-errs, we get the following message
- >
- > Jan 11 09:14:39 red lpd[3238]: restarting lw132
- > Jan 11 09:15:29 red last message repeated 59 times
- >
- >
- >Here's the printcap entry, cap.printers entry, and the shell script to
- >invoke papif (these worked when we were using IPtalk):
- >
- > (printcap)
- > lw132:\
- > :lp=/dev/lw132:\
- > :sd=/var/spool/lw132:\
- > :sf:\
- > :lf=/var/adm/lw-log:\
- > :if=/usr/local/lib/cap/lw132:\
- > :of=/usr/local/lib/cap/papof:
- >
- > (cap.printers)
- > lw132=132 PLW:LaserWriter@CoSc Labs
- >
- > (lw132 shell script)
- > #!/bin/sh
- > BANNERLAST=0
- > BANNERFIRST=0
- > DOACCT=0
- > export BANNERLAST BANNERFIRST DOACCT
- > /usr/local/lib/cap/papif -P lw132 $*
- >
- >Aufs, atlook, etc all work fine, and we can print a postscript file to lw132
- >using lwpr. Under ethertalk, the machines are in a different zone than
- >they were when running IPtalk. etcdest and all other dests were all set to
- >/usr/local/lib/cap.
- >
- >I've RTFM all weekend, and I'm completely stymied. I haven't been following
- >threads about printer probs, so I don't know if this is a common prob or not.
- >Could someone in the know please enlighten me? Any suggestions would be
- >very much appreciated!
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Craig Morgenstern
- >morgenst@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu
-
- What is the protection of /dev/nit in your SUNs?
- I had to "chmod 660 /dev/nit", "chgrp staff papif" and "chmod g+s papif" (set
- gid bit
- to staff). Then it all worked!
- Hope this helps!
-
- Paulo Goncalves.
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