Solaris 9 9/04 lpadmin issues

From: Jack Howarth (howarth_at_fuse.net)
Date: 11/17/04

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       Has anyone else seen the following problem? Our OEM has warned us
    to not install the 113329-XX patches for some time now saying that it
    breaks lpadmin. Sure enough when I did a clean install of Solaris
    9 9/04 (which has 113329-09 as a unremovable part of the install)
    I found that lpadmin is unable to create printers which use the
    parallel port. If I execute...

    lpadmin -p testprinter -v /dev/ecpp0 -T PS -I postscript

    ...I get an error message...

    >UX:lpadmin: ERROR: "/dev/ecpp0" is a symlink that points to a file with
    > a different owner.
    > TO FIX: Retry this operation with a new device.

    It appears that the security patch for lpadmin makes it unable
    to cope with the fact that the symlink for /dev/ecpp0 is root:root
    whereas the actual device file that it points to is lp:sys. Any
    advice on solving this would be greatly appreciated.
               Jack

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