Printer Problem

[Kenneth Brody]

markw at electromotor.com wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been away from the list for a while...I guess I need to read this list
> everyday and it might make me smarter...lol.
> 
> I have Filepro version 4.8.10 on a RH Linux 7.2 machine.
> I use the print command:  'lpr -P<printer name>' in Filepro's Printer
> Maintenance.
> 
> For the past four years we have had no problems sending print jobs to
> networked and local printers.  About two weeks ago all print jobs stopped
> working when initiated from Filepro.

My first question would have to be "what was changed 2 weeks ago?"

> My first step in troubleshooting was to try the print command at the command
> prompt....no problem printer works.  Next step was to login as root, enter
> filepro and try printing....all print jobs are sent and printed.
> If logged in as regular user no print jobs are spooled, but logged in as root
> they spool.
> I have been trying everything within my knowledge of the OS to try and
> pinpoint the problem, but I do not think it is OS related.  The problem seems
> to be within Filepro.

It sounds like it may be either a permission problem with the spooler, or
some change in the O/S and/or spooler that causes problems in a setuid
environment.

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