Almost there.

[Wazza]

Hello again
I would like to thank the person who replied to my last post regarding printing in Linux....Wish I could remember the name.
Anyway, I have been trying to get an old BJ200 printer to run under RH 6.2 without the aid of X (running on an old 486)and managed to install and run APSFILTER, which is a very easy program for setting up the printer without X.
Everything went well, and I was able to print out a test page within the setup program, which looked fairly good to me.
However, when I run a comand like.... lpr "filename" nothing happens???
I enabled APSFILTER's log file to see if anything turned up, and it reported /dev/console permission denied??
Like wise, if I run... cat "filename" | /dev/lp0 it comes back with... /dev/lp0 permission denied.
So....I have a permission problem??? I uninstalled lpd, then re installed it...but still the same result.
Also, in frustration, I changed the permissions of lp0 even though I didnt really know if anything els needs changing along with lp0.
Any help is welcomed, because Im sure that Im only one step away from the printer working.
Thanks in advance

Wazza

 

[Wazza]

Sorry, forgot to mention...I was loged in as root in all cases.

 

[Damaged]

That was me. Your welcome.

Is lpd running? Make sure it is. If it's running you can view the print queue by using lpc to at least make sure that the jobs are being sent to the printer queue.

Finally, can you print as root but not as the user?