CUPS log files flooding

mark m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Fri Sep 12 17:22:06 UTC 2008


Margaret Doll wrote:
> I have a cron job that deletes the spool cups jobs every night.
> 
> I made no changes in the system except to add a few users since the
> updates and the time the problem began to occur.
> 
> We are also running samba and named on the system.

When up2date did the updating, did it update some configuration files?

	mark
> 
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:06 PM, mark wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> <snip>
>> Could it be that the spool files are not being deleted?
>>
>>     mark
>>
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