Data left on /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/cups/tmp

[Andy R]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Toralf Lund wrote:
> >
> > It looks like CUPS will sometimes leave files on /var/spool/cups and
> > /var/spool/cups/tmp. E.g. on one host we have
> >
> > # ls -l /var/spool/cups
> > total 44
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1331 Mar 12 19:51 c00001
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1343 Mar 12 19:51 c00002
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1337 Mar 12 19:55 c00003
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1337 Mar 15 09:47 c00004
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1337 Mar 15 11:17 c00005
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys           602 Mar 15 11:24 c00006
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1337 Mar 15 14:26 c00007
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1331 Mar 16 11:17 c00008
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys           602 Mar 16 11:25 c00009
> > -rw-------    1 lp       sys          1337 Mar 17 11:50 c00010
> > drwx-----T    2 lp       sys          4096 Mar 17 11:50 tmp
> >
> > # ls -l /var/spool/cups/tmp/
> > total 7120
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        662406 Jun 20  2002 3d11ca6239001
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        118184 Jun 25  2002 3d18119e71f27
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys       3569106 Dec 18  2002 3e0054b1e6e1e
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        402913 Sep  8  2003 3f5c905fe7774
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        163840 Sep  8  2003 3f5c92215bc04
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        402913 Sep  8  2003 3f5c922168001
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        402913 Sep  8  2003 3f5c922915b9f
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        402913 Sep  8  2003 3f5c9272e3034
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        402913 Sep  8  2003 3f5c92c0619d1
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys         58855 Oct 13 10:05 3f8a5cceb6b48
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys         29974 Oct 13 16:49 3f8abb949bfc5
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys         46469 Dec 11 12:32 3fd855daae481
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys         46469 Dec 11 12:47 3fd8594a1ee72
> > -rw-------    1 root     sys        504082 Feb 18 17:20 403390c008f08
> >
> > with no print cups active. Another had an even worse situation just now;
> > there were *lots* of large files which consumed 11Gb in total and made
> > the machine unusable due to a full disk.
> >
> > What's causing this?
> >
> > cups-1.1.17-13 on Red Hat Linux 9
>
> What about the PreserveJobxxxx keyword in your cupsd.conf ?
>
> Helge
>
> --
> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.com
> H.Blischke at acm.org

Had the same, and yes checked the PreserveJob keyword, which is set to yes as default. This resulted in 154807 files!!!!!!

Thank you Helge, changed it!