ports/99745: print/cups: CUPS 1.2.0_x: Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied
Osamu Hasegawa
>Number: 99745
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: print/cups: CUPS 1.2.0_x: Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 03 12:40:04 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Osamu Hasegawa
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Jun 28 11:21:26 JST 2006 ro...@minami.fls.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
CUPS 1.2.0 with parallel port printer has a same issue as ports/99460.
/usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf is as follows.
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<DefaultPrinter MJ-800C>
Info MJ-800C
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lpt0
State Idle
StateTime 1151906919
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
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The following error is found in /var/log/cups/error_log.
"Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lpt0": Permission denied"
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Similar to ports/99460 ports/99624/.
Add following lines to /etc/devfs.rules:
[system=10]
add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups
And following to /etc/rc.conf:
devfs_system_ruleset="system"
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
Edwin Groothuis
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: edwin
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 3 12:41:10 UTC 2006
State-Changed-Why:
Awaiting maintainers feedback
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->itetcu
Responsible-Changed-By: itetcu
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 3 13:59:07 UTC 2006
Responsible-Changed-Why:
I'll take it.