[cups.general] Cups error log

[Kurt Pfeifle]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> Why are my errors.log file so large?? (
> errors_log 84MB
> errors_log.1 64 MB
> errors_log.2 15 MB
> errors_log.3  21 MB
> errors_log.4 7 MB

My sure bet is that your cupsd.conf has a line saying "LogLevel debug2".

That LogLevel is only good on two occasions for you:

  (a) you *need* it because you know what to do with it.
  (b) you want to fill your harddisk space, fairly fast.

Go back to "LogLevel debug" and restart cupsd (or send a "kill -HUP"
to the process ID).

> I attach a copy of part of errors_log of yesterday afternoon

I can't fetch that attachment. But if it contains lots of lines all
starting with a lowercase "d", that's LogLevel debug2 output....
LogLevel debug lines start with uppercase "D".

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Kurt Pfeifle
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