Bug 227369

Summary:	cupsd not reloading after logrotate -> logs go to backup file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas Springer <th.springer>
Component:	cups	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Fixed In Version:	1.2.7-8.fc7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Thomas Springer 2007-02-05 17:13:06 UTC

Description of problem:

When logrotate finishes, cupsd appends logs to <logfile>.1 and doesn't use newly 
created logfile until the service is restarted.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215023
reveals why this is the case, so i guess my problem is already known.

The RPM-changelog mentions bug 215024, but i'am not allowed to access this 
information :-/

What is it that cupsd cant't get reloaded by logrotate?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.2.7-1.7.fc6

How reproducible:
Not hard.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rotate logs
2. ll -t /var/log/cups/


BTW, MaxLogSize=2000000000 is afaics not the upstream default and I would like to 
know why 2G should be a good idea.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2007-02-05 17:17:04 UTC

Okay, the solution to this is to get CUPS to rotate its own logs and leave
logrotate out of it altogether.

It's no good trying to get logrotate to reload CUPS because it'll restart any
long-running print jobs, possibly wasting hundreds of sheets of paper.

Comment 2 Thomas Springer 2007-02-05 17:35:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Okay, the solution to this is to get CUPS to rotate its own logs and leave
> logrotate out of it altogether.
Sounds good.

Thanks for your immediate reply..do you have a comment on the MaxLogSize entry  in 
cupsd.conf, please?

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2007-02-05 17:49:10 UTC

We'll drop the size down so that cups ends up rotating its own logs.  It was set
at 2Gb just to avoid LFS problems IIRC.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2007-02-13 17:34:02 UTC

Fixed in devel: 1.2.7-8.fc7.