All Printers Have Disappearred

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:42 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/21/2009 07:00 AM, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > cupsd is not running even though it is enabled in services. I tried:
> > 
> >> sudo /etc/init.d/cups
> > 
> 
> $ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
> 
> You should get back a response like this:
> $ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
> [sudo] password for <username>:
>  * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd   [ OK ]
> 
> 

This is what happens:

chippy at dell-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
[sudo] password for chippy: 
chippy at dell-desktop:~$ 

So nothing appears to happen. The file /etc/init.d/cups exists -
otherwise I would get an error message.

Should I try re-installing cups?

Rick B.