[cups.general] Excessive Get-Printer-Attributes in CUPS

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Sep 17 11:36:18 PDT 2007


Jeff Hardy wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:40 -0700, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>> Jeff Hardy wrote:
>>
>>> These are all raw queues, and I had assumed that
>>> 'client-error-not-found' would be expected for any queue without a PPD.
>>> Is that correct?
>> I don't think that raw queues would return for "Get-Printer-Attributes"
>> always a 'client-error-not-found' (even 'raw' queues do have attributes).
>>
> 
> Apologies for responding to an old post, but I am still seeing the
> issue.  I had debugging turned on trying to track down something
> unrelated, and found this:
> 
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] cupsdAcceptClient: skipping getpeercon()
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] cupsdAcceptClient: 11 from localhost
> (Domain)
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 11 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
> provided.
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes
> ipp:///printers/printers
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes
> client-error-not-found: The printer or class was not found.
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 11
> status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
> D [17/Sep/2007:10:29:52 -0400] cupsdCloseClient: 11
> 
> 
> The path ipp:///printers/printers definitely does not exist.  Curious.

More than likely you have a desktop process that is polling CUPS at
regular intervals...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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