> >>>> I have a script on a linux machine that runs a program that
> >>>> accesses the
> >>>> parallel port. It seems that I can only access the port as
> >>> root. The problem
> >>>> is I'd like to run the script as apache (in the cgi-bin).
> >>>>
>
> I've heard of a similar problem addressed by simply changing the 'file'
> protection of /dev/whatever-the-parallel-port-is-called to permit
> non-root access.  Have you tried that?

        I changed the access to lp0 (and an entry called parport0) to xwr for all
users, still the same problem. I believe this is the case since the program
isn't accessing the port through the lp0 mechanism. Thanks, TTYL

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