On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:08:38 +0000, Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Tim > Well, does that command also fail when you run it directly as root?: > > perl -e 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' </dev/usb/lp0 [root@skymoo ~]# perl -e 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' </dev/usb/lp0 Segmentation fault Yes, this is with kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3, the same also happens with a home brew 2.6.9-ac16 Cheers Adam