* Description of problem: Last week I migrated our CUPS server to a new system with RHEL5 and all errata updates. Everything seems to work fine, except that the /var/log/cups/page_log stays empty. I configured the PageLog cupsd.conf configuration entry (although it should be set by default according to the comments in the file). The file stays empty. * Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.6 x86_64 * How reproducible: I configured CUPS on another (fully updated) RHEL5 system, and there too the page_log stays empty. * Actual results: Empty /var/log/cups/page_log * Expected results: Every printed job should be reported in this file.
The problem seems to have been caused by the following lines in the NRG/Ricoh PPD files (which I downloaded from openprinting.org): ----- *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip" *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "printf "%%!PS-Adobe-3.0\n%%%% %%&& %%\n%B%C%D%A"%%%%; cat;" *End ----- We had problems that some types of printjobs would hang the printers. After removing the lines mentioned from the PPD files, the printjobs would get printed without problems. At the same time, the page_log started getting filled too....
Could you please attach the PPD file that was causing problems, or a pointer to it? Thanks.
One of the PPD's creating the problem: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/NRG/NRG-DSc338
I think this is a problem with the Ricoh PPDs. They would be better without the foomatic-rip lines I think.