[comp.sys.att] lp gotcha with accept

kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) (08/13/90)

Not documented anywhere that I found, but I found necessary:

when running "/usr/lib/accept" on the unixpc, you MUST be su'd
to user lp.  Ordinary su is evidently not sufficient.  I would
recommend writting this on the manual page for accept.
accept doesn't give any error message when not run as lp,
but nothing happens.
This took me a couple of late hours to find.

I have no idea what the official behavior is supposed to be.

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