Does your cups clean up after itself?

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Dec 6 03:52:57 UTC 2006


Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Currently, my contents of /var/spool/cups on FC6 are:
> 
> [root at commodore cups]# ls -al
> total 224
> drwx--x---  3 root lp   4096 Dec  4 22:04 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Oct 29 14:36 ..
> -rw-------  1 root lp    686 Oct 28 17:38 c00001
> -rw-------  1 root lp    686 Oct 28 17:39 c00002
> -rw-------  1 root lp    686 Oct 28 17:41 c00003
> 
> […]
> 
> -rw-------  1 root lp    713 Dec  4 19:41 c00048
> -rw-------  1 root lp    713 Dec  4 19:44 c00049
> -rw-------  1 root lp    728 Dec  4 22:04 c00050
> drwxrwx--T  2 root lp   4096 Nov 22 07:17 tmp
> 
> 
> Oct 28 was when this machine was upgraded to FC6, and it's been rebooted 
> several times since then. Looks like cups doesn't clean up after itself. 
> Before I bugzilla this, can anyone look into their /var/spool/cups to 
> see if cups cleans up its files?
> 
> 
> 

I have the below and no outstanding print jobs outstanding.

Jim

  ls -la /var/spool/cups
total 80
drwx--x---  3 root lp   4096 Dec  1 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:06 ..
-rw-------  1 root lp    649 Nov  3 20:05 c00054
-rw-------  1 root lp    663 Nov  3 20:22 c00055
-rw-------  1 root lp    665 Nov  7 06:20 c00056
-rw-------  1 root lp    663 Nov  7 06:39 c00057
-rw-------  1 root lp    663 Nov  7 06:45 c00058
-rw-------  1 root lp    723 Nov 28 21:43 c00059
-rw-------  1 root lp    711 Dec  1 18:55 c00060
drwxrwx--T  2 root lp   4096 Dec  1 18:55 tmp


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