[cups.general] CUPS syslogging 2 lines every 5 seconds!

[Michael Sweet]

Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running a 2 week old installation of Debian Etch on an i686 platform and
> I've just noticed that my /var/log/cups/access_log is _huge_ (despite daily
> rotation) because the following two lines are being written every 5 secs:
> ...
> My printer's working OK, i.e., it prints fine from most applications (Firefox
> excepted).
> 
> There can be no good reason for such endless repetition of information. Anyone
> know what's causing this and how I can stop it?

This is GNOME constantly polling CUPS.  I don't know if it can be
disabled, but I'd ask the GNOME folks for an answer...

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