Cups daemon dies on some time of inactivity

[Michael Sweet]

Juergen Schroeder wrote:
> Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:
> : Juergen Schroeder wrote:
> 
> : > I  found  often that the Cups daemon dies some times silently, no output
> : > in any log.  My workaround has been to restart him with cron every hour,
> : > 
> : > Is this problem known?
> 
> : Nope.  Can you run cupsd in a debugger (use the "-f" option when you
> : run it) or use truss/strace to see what it happening in the
> : scheduler?
> 
> I start it with 
> 
> truss -o /tmp/cupsd.truss.$$ ${exec_prefix}/sbin/cupsd
> 
> this  is  the  log, but it had been written only when the daemon starts,
> later no entry:

You need to use the "-f" option for cupsd so that it runs in the
foreground.

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