Error messages not stopping

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Gordon wrote:

>>> Help!
>>>
>>>
>>> localhost - - [05/Aug/2007:14:02:55 -0700] "POST /printers/lj6p HTTP/1.1" 200 138 Get-Job-Attributes client-error-not-found
>>
>> That's a message from the access_log, not the page_log.
>>
>> As such, not an *error* message, but one that is to be expected. Com-
>> pletely normal...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kurt Pfeifle
>> System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS
>> Infotec Deutschland GmbH  .....................  Hedelfinger Strasse 58
>> A RICOH Company  ...........................  D-70327 Stuttgart/Germany
> 
> I have over 24,000 of those messages since 9am. It stopped at 24,000 
> because I shut down cups. If I start it back up, the stream of logs just 
> grows again. That is not normal!
> 
> I just want to figure out what the f**k is generating them. 

Prolly a misconfiguration of your Samba (assuming your 'print from Win-
dows client' happens via Samba).

> The print 
> queue is empty, no files in /var/spool/cups.

If you print from Windows, and if your Samba setup is correct, the jobs
would initially go to '/var/spool/samba' (or some other directory *dif-
ferent* to CUPS' spooling area).

Post the important parts of your Samba settings. For example, the output
of

   testparm -vs | grep -E "lp|cups|driver|print|spool"

A first wild guess: your 'printcap cache time' may have a low value;
set it to at least '600'.


-- 
Kurt Pfeifle
System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS
Infotec Deutschland GmbH  .....................  Hedelfinger Strasse 58
A RICOH Company  ...........................  D-70327 Stuttgart/Germany