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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: