CUPS log files flooding

[Margaret Doll]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:22 PM, mark wrote:

> 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

I  think you hit on the problem.  I changed back to the  
cupsd.conf.save.  access_log is
still getting the

>>>>> 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

messages.  However, /var switched from 71% full to 51% full.

I will now look and see what changed in cupsd.conf.  I will get back  
to you.

Thanks.

>>
>> 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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