wlk@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Wolf Kozel) (02/08/90)
Twice within the last two months when I've had a disk fill up to above 98% of capacity, my printer interface files in /usr/spool/lp/ interface have "gone away". Poof, they're gone. The first time I attributed it to just being a weirdo Xenix problem that you never,ever see again. After a two hours of so of re-creating lpinit and finding out what device the printers were on, I got the printers up and running again. Two weeks ago, it happened again and I was better prepared. My question is, Do weird lp problems happen to OTHER people out there too?? One of my favorites is the lpsched stopping because of a problem printer. You can't remove the printer because lpinit insists that isn't there, and you can't add it because it already exists. A real catch-22. If you ignore lpinit complaints and add/remove/add/remove--then you can really get rid of it. Why does Xenix wipeout the printer interface files FIRST when it is running out of disk space? Regards, Wolf Kozel @ Arnet