Bug 98657
| Summary: | CUPS writes to log file every five seconds | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Matthew Saltzman <mjs> |
| Component: | desktop-printing | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:56:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89696 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 Description of problem: The CUPS daemon writes an entry to /var/log/cups/access_log every five seconds with the following form: localhost - - [06/Jul/2003:17:49:25 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 219 This makes for huge log files with little useful information: $ cd /var/log/cups $ ls -l access_log* -rw-r--r-- 1 lp sys 684273 Jul 6 17:50 access_log -rw-r--r-- 1 lp sys 5327172 Jul 6 04:02 access_log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 lp sys 4205427 Jun 29 23:25 access_log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 lp sys 6477304 Jun 22 04:02 access_log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 lp sys 7677744 Jun 15 04:02 access_log.4 $ wc access_log* 9949 99490 686481 access_log 77205 772050 5327172 access_log.1 60947 609470 4205427 access_log.2 93873 938730 6477304 access_log.3 111269 1112690 7677744 access_log.4 353243 3532430 24374128 total $ LANG=C grep -v "200 219" access_log* | wc 1270 12700 104501 It also means that laptops running CUPS can never spin down their hard drives. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.1.17-13.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install, configure, and run CUPS 2. tail -f /var/log/cups/access_log 3. Actual Results: Log lines (identical except for time stamp) appear every five seconds. Expected Results: Log lines should appear when something interesting happens. Additional info: