Fixed Re: Re: access_log writes entry every 5 seconds

[Paul Campbell]

Thanks. Should this be an FAQ?
I was running RH Enterprise 3.
I found a printer icon that called /usr/bin/tryprint.pl.
It was associated with desktop-printing.
rpm -e desktop-printing fixed it.
This problem has been bugging me for years and
I have unfairly blamed CUPS.

So, if you see a 5 second pool someone,
not CUPS is doing that.

PS: I looked at the tryprint.pl and could not find where is
was doing a 5 sec poll but I don't need the functionality anyway.

PSPS: Yes, will look at xfce4.
I agree Gnome has too many annoying processes.



> what desktop or window manager are you using ?  gome looks nice but it has
> too many annoying processes running.  i switched to xfce4 and its great.
> try it without gnome or what ever and see if it does it.  and might need
> to do it at boot as i think kde and/or gnome leave some processes running
> after.  or maybe even at boot.  what distro.   sorry if i missed that
> info.  i have alot of emails and delete some fast..
>
> matt
>
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Michael Sweet wrote:
>
> > Anonymous wrote:
> > >>Hello all,
> > >>
> > >>It seems like the a single line is written to access_log every 5 seconds.
> > >>
> > >>For example :
> > >>localhost - - [31/Oct/2004:1:48:07 +0800] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 221
> > >>
> > >>Is there a reason for that ?
> > >>
> > >>Is there a common way to stop it beside setting the file name
> > >>to /dev/null :
> > >>LogFilePerm 0666
> > >>AccessLog /dev/null
> > >>
> > >>Thanks,
> > >>dushik.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Was this question ever answered ?
> > > I have these same messages and would like to turn them off.
> >
> > You have a process (probably GNOME's printer support) that is polling
> > the server once every 5 seconds.
> >
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