Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi, > In reading through the various emails, one thing I don't see is you > trying to run > > system-config-printer > > That is what I always use to setup my printers. After setting it up > there, they just show up in the printers list for firefox and other places. this is true. but cups should still come up with 'http://localhost:631', which it is not. i thank you for your reply. please excuse my delay in replying. when i booted sl-5.2 system on 2009.0917, i had a problem in that i could not run firefox browser or thunderbird email client, so i shut down sl-5.2 and booted f-8 and ran a full backup of sl-5.2 system. in running backup, '/' on one partition, '/home' on another, i noted a rather long time in backup of '/home'. as it turned out, i had a partial copy of '/home' in my '/home/users' directory and this filled '/home' partition. i errored and deleted '/home/users/home' with out checking timestamps. not knowing any practical reason for this, and current security problems with firefox, i presumed worst and wiped both partitions. i now have a fresh install of sl-5.2 and ran into unsolved problems in running updates and reason for delay in replying. do to update problems, i need to put this problem on hold and correct update problems with yum and yumex. i am building a list of problems with yum and yumex and will post them later today, 2009.0923. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****