Bug 581748 - Finding a lot of symlinks in /tmp to cups ppd files
Summary: Finding a lot of symlinks in /tmp to cups ppd files
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cups
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2010-04-13 07:19 UTC by Joachim Backes
Modified: 2010-04-13 09:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-04-13 09:19:03 UTC
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Description Joachim Backes 2010-04-13 07:19:07 UTC
Description of problem:
Finding a lot of symlinks in the /tmp dir such as:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 uuuuu ggggg       23 Apr 13 09:07 4bc41844afe15 -> /etc/cups/ppd/e120n.ppd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 uuuuu ggggg       20 Apr 13 09:07 4bc418453d9c3 -> /etc/cups/ppd/kc.ppd

(uuuuu/ggggg are usernames/groupnames of real users, e120n and kc are printers). I don't know which system component creates such symlinks, and I don't know if this is a bug. But it bothers me.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.4.2-34.fc13.i686

How reproducible:
I dn't know.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2010-04-13 08:46:40 UTC
You need to find out which application is failing to clean up these symlinks.  It is expected that using libcups will create them, but it is up to the application to remove them when it is done with them.

Acroread is known to leave these files lying around, for instance, but applications using the GTK+ dialog do not as far as I am aware.

Comment 2 Joachim Backes 2010-04-13 09:19:03 UTC
You are right: Each time when printing or preparing a print with acroread, such links are created (and not removed).

Please excuse for trouble. No CUPS bug.


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