[cups.general] Puzzler

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

This morning cups was hung and using most of the cpu, I presume from an 
attempt to print the amanda report form that I toss on the backup stack so I 
know what has been backed up last.

Restarting cups did not spit out the missing report as there apparently was 
not an amdump.1 logfile generated, the reason also not stated in any of its 
files.

However, looking into /var/log/cups I find:

[root at coyote cups]# ls -l
total 3788
-rw------- 1 root lp  767998 Jul 10 09:51 access_log
-rw------- 1 root lp  307602 Jul  8 04:58 access_log.1
-rw------- 1 root lp  183232 Jul  1 05:04 access_log.2
-rw------- 1 root lp  191141 Jun 24 05:09 access_log.3
-rw------- 1 root lp  195074 Jun 17 04:57 access_log.4
-rw------- 1 root lp 1048644 Jul 10 07:58 access_log.O
-rw------- 1 root lp       0 Jul  9 05:09 cups-pdf_log
-rw------- 1 root lp     124 Jul  8 10:08 cups-pdf_log.1
-rw------- 1 root lp      62 Mar 27 07:55 cups-pdf_log.2
-rw------- 1 root lp     124 Mar 24 13:34 cups-pdf_log.3
-rw------- 1 root lp     372 Feb  5 09:31 cups-pdf_log.4
-rw------- 1 root lp     103 Jul 10 07:56 error_log
-rw------- 1 root lp      84 Apr 16 19:48 error_log.1
-rw------- 1 root lp    1599 Apr  7 20:56 error_log.2
-rw------- 1 root lp     964 Apr  1 01:11 error_log.3
-rw------- 1 root lp    1767 Mar 25 02:35 error_log.4
-rw------- 1 root lp 1048620 Feb  1 10:17 error_log.O
-rw------- 1 root lp     234 Jul 10 08:13 page_log
-rw------- 1 root lp   34400 Jul  8 02:44 page_log.1
-rw------- 1 root lp    1248 Jul  1 01:48 page_log.2
-rw------- 1 root lp    1120 Jun 24 04:46 page_log.3
-rw------- 1 root lp     768 Jun 17 01:30 page_log.4
[root at coyote cups]# less access_log.0
access_log.0: No such file or directory
[root at coyote cups]# less error_log.0
error_log.0: No such file or directory

What gives?  I can see the file with an ls -l, but I can't look at it with 
less?  Somethings definitely aglay here folks.

Kernel that is and was running was a freshly built 2.6.22, running on a 
uniprocessor xp-2800 athlon, gig of ram

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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