On Saturday 20 January 2001 02:07, you wrote:
> Hi! I am attempting to help get a Samba server that was permitted to run
> out of space on its hard drive back up and running. To make some room on
> the / directory and to give the spool files some elbow room I copied
> /tmp and /var to subdirectories that were on another partition (in this
> case under /home), recursively deleted everything in /tmp and /var under
> root, and then created symbolic links to /tmp and /var in the /
> directory from the appropriate directories on /home. Most services have
> stopped crashing, the system seems pretty stable at the moment, and
> samba is serving files to the networked Windows workstations. I just
> have one problem, the print jobs from the Windows workstations aren't
> winding up in the appropriate samba print queues.
>
> I have tested and I can print to the printers from the Linux box itself
> via the print queues that the Windows boxes are supposed to have
> attached to. Whenever I try to print on one of the Windows boxes I get
> an unidentified system error and a stalled print job. I am guessing that
> I accidentally changed the ownership or privileges of one of the files
> (or perhaps many of the files) in the var or tmp directories and the
> samba daimon isn't able to hand off to the print queues. Has anyone ever
> been here, done that, and discovered what needs to be fixed?
Yipes.... I am the one who sent info on the symlinks for /var to various
people on the lists back in the 6.1 days....
Unfortunately new things have been homed in /var and the result is that you
can run /var as part of / or as a separate partition but not as a symlink....
At least this is the situation beginning with 7.2 -- some of the things in
/var now like htmldocs or ftp like to do a ../ to go to the root directory
and it doesn't work too well if they end up at /home instead.
Civileme
