The background to this is that for the past few days the partition that
/usr is mounted on has been filling up to the point where plotting was not
possible. It was necessary to delete something. Today I began deleting
what I thought were unnecessary files. Emacs went as did the rather large
log file in /usr/spool/lp. There are others that went as well, including
pstatus in /usr/spool/lp. After rebooting there was plenty of space now
available but no printing/plotting capabilities! The (new) log file in
/usr/spool/lp now says:
lpsched: can't open printer status file
***** STOPPED Jan 13 14:49 *****
'lpstat -t' gives:
scheduler is not running
system default destination: hplj4l_a
device for hplj4l_hplj4: /dev/tty02
device for ps_A: /dev/console
device for hplj4l_a: /dev/tty01
hplj4l_hplj4 accepting requests since Dec 19 17:27
hplj4l_a accepting requests since Feb 5 11:05
ps_A accepting requests since May 5 15:59
lpstat: can't open printer status file
I assume this refers to the deleted pstatus file. I have tried both
lpinstall from sysadm and cfpp from UXNMR but to no avail. How can I
generate the appropriate pstatus file (if this is indeed what is needed)?
Is it necessary to reload the lp software from tape? This is a *very* busy
machine and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Keith
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