Re: Permission denied

[Michael Loßin <losse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Culleton wrote:
> 
> When I run lpr -Praw foo.txt I get the following in a log file:
> 
> egrep: /var/spool/lpd/printer1-stcany_h.upp-letter-raw/cfA002As2oOJx:
> Permission denied egrep:
> /var/spool/lpd/printer1-stcany_h.upp-letter-raw/cfA002As2oOJx:
> Permission denied egrep:
> /var/spool/lpd/printer1-stcany_h.upp-letter-raw/cfA002As2oOJx:
> Permission denied egrep:
> /var/spool/lpd/printer1-stcany_h.upp-letter-raw/cfA002As2oOJx:
> Permission denied

This is a FAQ. Plain lpr spoolers have this problem, you can
get around this with LPRng (which will do you good anyway).

> I have the latest stable release on a Linux system. I have a2ps and it
> is accessable. I changed the permissions on the directory above to 777.

The directory permissions are not the problem, it's the actual file
that has only -rw------- (or similar).


Michael