lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (04/14/91)
Alright, I've done a dumb thing. Trying to make space on my hard drive, I deleted a bunch of mail, network, and uucp-related files (because my machine is not networked). This caused my two problems, which I hope someone may be able to help me with: (1) "lpr", "lp", etc. no longer work. They seem to think they are working; i.e., it gives me back a request ID, and the job sits in the spooler, but nothing comes out of the printer. Any idea which of the files I may have deleted would cause this problem? (2) In the process of trying to print, I now have a "pr" process in the background which the system doesn't seem to believe is really there. "ps" reports it, and when I try to kill it, nothing happens. "fg" reports that there is "no such job". If it helps, I remember deleting the following files: mail mailx sendmail who w finger uucp uu(*) except uudecode/encode telnet ... there were more, I forget which. Any help is vastly appreciated... Joe -- _________________________________ \ ___________________________________ Joseph W. Lavinus, Virginia Tech \ email: lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu 1204-A University Terrace /\ phone: (703) 552-0241 Blacksburg, VA 24060 / \ (703) 231-5853