From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 11: 9:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C2A37BCA8 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03491; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:08:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200006221808.OAA03491@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Chris Moline" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:51:24 PDT." <000101bfdc05$87bcae60$e966bfce@ccomp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:08:53 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris chomplained, > Hi I have done something really stupid. I have for various reasons (it's a > long story) deleted the spooling directory. I have tried to set it back up > again from scratch but that didn't work-it still wants the old directory. > Looking through the archives it doesn't look like anyone was as dumb as I > was and so now I have to ask you what i can do to get it back up and > running. What can I do? Thanks a lot. do you have all of the owners and permissions right? that counts :) Here's mine: hawkinsttyp0:hawk>ls -lsd /var/spool/* 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp dialer 512 Mar 20 16:26 /var/spool/lock 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Mar 20 16:26 /var/spool/lpd 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Jun 22 14:05 /var/spool/mqueue 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 news news 512 Jun 21 10:31 /var/spool/news 1 drwx------ 2 root daemon 512 Mar 20 16:26 /var/spool/opielocks 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root daemon 512 Jun 21 18:33 /var/spool/output 1 drwxrwxr-x 7 uucp uucp 512 Jun 20 09:03 /var/spool/uucp 1 drwxrwxrwx 2 uucp uucp 512 Mar 20 16:26 /var/spool/uucppublic hmm, and now that I think about it, for some reason it's in my mind that on boot, those directories are created if they don't exist. Take that with a lot of salt, because I really have no idea where that idea comes from . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message