Does your cups clean up after itself?

[David G. Miller]

Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:

> 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
Equivalent content of /var/spool/cups here. A quick vi of one of the 
files (they're binary so don't cat them :-o) reveals the content to be 
some kind of a job record.

If nothing else, looks like there just needs to be a cron job that 
deletes the files older than some reasonable vintage (31 days?).

Cheers,
Dave

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