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AIX non-root users can not print

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medtrainer

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Dec 23, 2001
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I know this is a permissions problem, but I do not have a "list" of the files and what the permissions need to be.

The IMB website referred to a "prtcheck" program that would do this, but I have searched the worl over and can not find this.

I have a site will all 200+ of thier printers not working unlesss we log in as root.

Any help isappreacited.
 
Sorry to have posted this - I looked back at old posts and I think I have found waht I need -thank you
I went on this advice:

Sometimes a reinstall of printers.rte and bos.rte.printers will reset them...
but here are the permissions........and owner and group.



Appendix B: File permissions, owners and groups

At minimum, the following should be checked. This is especially true if only the root user (superuser) can print.

-r-sr-s--- 1 root printq 58989 Oct 26 1994 /usr/sbin/qdaemon
-r-sr-s--- 1 root printq 50099 Oct 26 1994 /usr/sbin/lpd
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root printq 59262 Oct 26 1994 /bin/enq
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 31493 Oct 26 1994 /bin/qprt
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 30397 Oct 26 1994 /bin/lp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 31421 Oct 26 1994 /bin/lpr
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 30909 Oct 26 1994 /bin/lpstat
-r-xr-sr-x 1 bin printq 54633 Oct 13 1994 /usr/lib/lpd/piobe
-r-sr-x--- 1 root printq 38205 Oct 26 1994 /usr/lib/lpd/digest
-r-sr-x--- 1 root printq 52088 Oct 26 1994 /usr/lib/lpd/qstatus
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root printq 49626 Aug 14 1995 /usr/lib/lpd/pio
/etc/pioout
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 2, 2 Jul 09 08:56 /dev/null
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root printq 6198 Sep 27 10:55 /etc/qconfig
-rw-rw---- 1 root printq 26876 Sep 27 10:55 /etc/qconfig.bin
drwxr-xr-x 33 bin bin 2048 Sep 17 00:39 /
drwxr-xr-x 12 bin bin 512 Jul 10 14:45 /var
drwxrwxr-x 12 bin bin 512 Sep 13 18:53 /var/spool
drwxrwxr-x 5 bin printq 14336 Sep 14 11:51 /var/spool/lpd
drwxrwxr-x 2 root printq 42496 Sep 15 17:19 /var/spool/lpd/qdir
drwxrwxr-x 2 root printq 2048 Sep 15 17:18 /var/spool/lpd/stat
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin printq 6656 Sep 15 15:23 /var/spool/qdaemon
drwxr-xr-x 21 bin bin 512 Jan 17 1995 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 11776 Sep 16 23:31 /usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 9216 Sep 16 23:32 /usr/sbin
drwxrwxr-x 15 root system 8192 Sep 27 10:55 /etc
drwxrwsrwt 16 bin bin 4608 Nov 27 14:32 /tmp

To check directories, enter:

ls -ld <path/directory>

For example, ls -ld / would return information for root directory, and ls -ld /etc would return information for the
etc directory.
 
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