[6462] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.1H: mkserv -print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 26 15:50:28 1990
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 15:50:13 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.1H
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
Remove the "print" service from my workstation. I was
configured with discuss, nfs, mail, remote and print services,
and wanted to punt the print service, so I typed "mkserv
-print".
What's wrong:
Mkserv left my workstation in an incredibly bogus state after
it was finished. Symlinks on the root pointed to nonexistent
directories, including /usr/ucb and /usr/bin. Basically, the
workstation was pretty much unusable without lots of hacking
on it, and mkserv couldn't be run to clean up, since mkserv
couldn't find the programs it needed to run.
What should have happened:
Running "mkserv -print" should have left my workstation in the
state it was in before I ran "mkserv print".
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
mkserv(8).
jik
