CUPS log files flooding

mark m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Fri Sep 12 17:06:03 UTC 2008


Margaret Doll wrote:
> I did my last update today using up2date.   The update that  I did on
> August 28th included the updates that changed this system.  I do have
> ten other RedHat system at various versions;  I don't see the problem on
> the other systems.
> 
> The errors in the /var/log/cups/access_log  have always been
> 
> localhost - - [05/Sep/2008:14:20:18 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 192
> localhost - - [05/Sep/2008:14:20:18 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 192
> 
> However, after the last upgrade this access_log is large very quickly
> and fills up the
> /var partition.  I have turned off the LogLevel on
> cups to none, so access_log has stopped growing.
> 
> There is also something else going on as well.
> 
> /var is still filling up.  I know that the log and named directories in
> /var contain the files that are growing.

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Could it be that the spool files are not being deleted?

	mark




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