[cups.general] [Fwd: [Printing-user-general] Whyhas nothingchanged?]

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jul 31 08:34:57 PDT 2006


Michael Sweet wrote:
> wtautz wrote:
>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>> K
>>>>
>>>> Two years ago, Eric Raymond posted his experiences with CUPS:
>>>> http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cups-horror.html
>>>> in which he points out, with specific examples, that CUPS is a
>>>> nightmare
>>>> to configure.
>>>> ...
>>>> My response:
>>>> Debug mode and a logfile are debugging tools for the developers. No
>>>> user should ever need to go near either of them.
>>> While I agree that ordinary users shouldn't have to look at the log
>>> files, they are not just for developers.  Administrators and support
>>> people also need the log files to diagnose configuration and
>>> installation problems.
>> Michael, Would it be possible to have a per queue log files setup? Kind
>> of like lpr does. It's a bit of a pain to hunt through the log files
>> which to
>> a certain degree is misnamed since 'error_log' implies it should ONLY
>> log
>> errors when the reality it logs a lot more depending on the value of
>> loglevels.
>
> "error_log" and "access_log" come from Apache, and we modeled the
> cupsd program and files very closely on Apache on purpose.  You can,
> of course, give the logs different names...
>
> As for providing separate log files per printer, there are some
> scaling issues to consider (one file per active printer...) as well
> as how to expose this in a secure way.
>
> Can you file an enhancement request on the CUPS web site and include
> all of your ideas:
>
>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
>
> Thanks!
>
I have filed STR #1873. Unfortunately at this juncture I am not completely
certain I can provide that may ideas :-)

walter





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