[9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log

[9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log

[Jeff Sickel]

After doing a fresh install (today) to update my machine to fossil, I 
noticed a few quirks that just needed a slight fix:

lp based commands like 'man -t man | page -w' would error out with

converting from troff to postscript...
/sys/lib/lp/log/stdout: rc (lp): can't open: permission denied
reading through postscript...
cannot find end of first line

The fix is just to create /sys/lib/lp/log/stdout

a-rw-rw-rw- M 63 sys sys 0 Mar  4 21:56 /sys/lib/lp/log/stdout


So for fossil either create your own stdout to use:

mkdir $home/lib/log
bind -c $home/lib/log /sys/lib/lp/log

_or_:

echo 'srv -AWP fs.noauth' >> /srv/fscons
mount /srv/fs.noauth /n/fossil
bind -bc /n/fossil/sys/lib/lp/log /sys/lib/lp/log

man -t man | page -w
exit


As the file is 666, it doesn't really matter who the owner is in the 
long run.

jas

Re: [9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log

[Kenji Okamoto]

> lp based commands like 'man -t man | page -w' would error out with
> converting from troff to postscript...
> /sys/lib/lp/log/stdout: rc (lp): can't open: permission denied
> reading through postscript...
> cannot find end of first line

curious, I have no error for the above command...

> The fix is just to create /sys/lib/lp/log/stdout
> 
> a-rw-rw-rw- M 63 sys sys 0 Mar  4 21:56 /sys/lib/lp/log/stdout

/rc/bin/lp has lines of

LPLOG=$LPLOGDIR/$LPDEST
if (! test -e $LPLOG) {
	>$LPLOG
	chmod +rwa $LPLOG >[2]/dev/null
}
so, it will be made automatically if not.

Kenji

Re: [9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log

[Jeff Sickel]

On Mar 5, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Kenji Okamoto wrote:

>
> /rc/bin/lp has lines of
>
> LPLOG=$LPLOGDIR/$LPDEST
> if (! test -e $LPLOG) {
> 	>$LPLOG
> 	chmod +rwa $LPLOG >[2]/dev/null
> }
> so, it will be made automatically if not.

It would depend on if you have permissions to /sys/lib/lp/log or not.  
Right after a fresh (yesterday or today) install, /sys/lib/lp/log has 
the permissions sys.sys 775, so glenda couldn't create the $LPLOG file, 
unless you added glenda into the sys group before running lp.

jas

Re: [9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log

[Kenji Okamoto]

> /sys/lib/lp/log has 
> the permissions sys.sys 775, so glenda couldn't create the $LPLOG file, 
> unless you added glenda into the sys group before running lp.

Yes, I checked souces's /sys/lib/lp/log permission, and found you are
right.   It was long time ago when I, probably, made change it locally here,
and I've forgotten it.

Kenji

Re: [9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log

[David Presotto]

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thanks, I just made /sys/lib/lp/log 777 on sources.

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From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: /sys/lib/lp/log
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:10:10 -0600
Message-ID: <2423B1C4-6E74-11D8-8A93-003065E1714E@corpus-callosum.com>


On Mar 5, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Kenji Okamoto wrote:

>
> /rc/bin/lp has lines of
>
> LPLOG=$LPLOGDIR/$LPDEST
> if (! test -e $LPLOG) {
> 	>$LPLOG
> 	chmod +rwa $LPLOG >[2]/dev/null
> }
> so, it will be made automatically if not.

It would depend on if you have permissions to /sys/lib/lp/log or not.  
Right after a fresh (yesterday or today) install, /sys/lib/lp/log has 
the permissions sys.sys 775, so glenda couldn't create the $LPLOG file, 
unless you added glenda into the sys group before running lp.

jas