[cups.general] Error messages not stopping

[Michael R Sweet]

Gordon wrote:
>> Gordon wrote:
>>> I'm running Fedora 6 and added an entry for my Laserjet 6P. I'm trying
>>> to print from my windows machine with no luck yet. But I am getting a
>>> constant stream of the following error. Nothing I do stops it except
>>> for stopping cups, but the messages start as soon as I restart it.
>>> 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
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> 
> 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. The print queue is empty, no files in /var/spool/cups.

More than likely you either have cups-lpd enabled and a client
pointing to an old print queue, or a local (desktop) process running
that is looking at an old print queue.

Perhaps running lsf will find the local process that is connected on
localhost or the domain socket?

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer