another problem with the lp command

Donald Lashomb donlash at uncle.UUCP
Thu Feb 22 11:55:34 AEST 1990


In article <2477 at ttardis.UUCP= rlw at ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:
=A problem I occasionaly experience is that:
=
=	lp filename
=
=fails to queue the print job - no error message or any thing
[.....]
=	lp <filename
=
=has yet to fail.
[ ... reboot helps ... ]

The "classic" answer to this is permissions, ie the file must be readable
by world for lp to print it.  But I don't see how rebooting would help.

-Don



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