access_log writes entry every 5 seconds

[Michael Sweet]

Bruce McEachern wrote:
> To all (paticularly EasyS/W):
> 
> Why doesn't anybody have a reply for dushik?!? His post has
> been up a long time. I have the same question, but a lot

This is a volunteer forum.  If you want a guaranteed answer,
pay for it.

That said...

> bettere idea of why this is happening: The access_log is
> accumulating the KeepAlive "ping"'s from the CUPS control
> s/w. While, technically, this _is_ an "access," I am certain

None of the standard CUPS software polls at 5-second intervals.
What you are probably seeing is a GUI which is polling with
no way to disable that behavior.

> ...
> I'm admin'g a MacOSX server and this is PITA! The client
> sure to soon ask for some fine-grained control over the
> printer access: will I have to tell them to dump CUPS?

There is no way to control which requests are logged in the
access_log file - you can either log everything or nothing.
If you would like to see this functionality, file an
enhancement request on the following page:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

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