[cups.general] Puzzler

[Michael Sweet]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
> 

The .O files use the letter O, not the number 0.

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