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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!lynx.unm.edu!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!juphoff From: juphoff@chaos.aoc.nrao.edu (Jeff Uphoff) Subject: How do I start a printer? Message-ID: <1993Apr25.095108.12215@chaos.aoc.nrao.edu> Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM Date: Sun, 25 Apr 93 09:51:08 GMT Lines: 23 I have got 386BSD running finally...a 386/33. I am curious how to start printing. When I boot, I don't get a message saying that unix has recognized any printer connected (the com ports, math co., disks all get recognized--the device names, interrupt, addresses and such are fine). I have a printer on LPT1 on irq 7. how do I get print services started? do I have to simply mknod lp....? if so, what would the major and minor #'s be? I recall seeing something about a printer socket, but I'm new to this depth of unix, so I'm not sure what sockets even are. Any help anyone could give me on printers would be most appreciated. Also, I have a question about shutdown. The way it is set up, anyone can shutdown the system. How do I go about limiting shutdown privel's to root and an exclusive group (a named group called shutdown). I have played with chown, chmod, etc. for this, but just can't seem to get it right. Thanx...e-mail responses would be most appreciated. -- Jeff Uphoff -- "Uppie" | juphoff@astro.phys.vt.edu | new .sig under construction... juphoff@zia.aoc.nrao.edu |