Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76791
cups logrotate
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
Cups has internal logrotation set, what makes log rotatiuon inconsistent with the rest of the system, The best way is to set MaxLogSize 0 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and rotate files using script in /etc/logrotate.d/ /var/log/cups/*.log { missingok notifempty sharedscripts postrotate /etc/init.d/cups restart >/dev/null` 2>&1 || true endscript } This will make log rotation more consistent.
In addition: /etc/init.d/cups restart >/dev/null 2>&1 || true should not be used in scrip because this will start cups even if it should not be started. The best way is to use pid, put cups seems does not create such file in /var/run/ directory.
This is fixed in cups-1.1.15-13, which will show up in rawhide shortly.
cups logs are by default *_log and not *.log, so cups.logrotate in rawhide needs to be corrected.