[cups.general] page_log history

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Maelvon <maelvon.hawk at laposte.net> writes:

> Michael Sweet a écrit :
>> Maelvon wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have cups, and it seems it keep in var/log/cups/page_log etc only 
>>> one month of printed jobs ! I've think it keep more than one month in 
>>> the logs. I've installed it in june, and have only the september jobs 
>>> in the logs... How can I configure the log history length ?
>>>
>>> ---------------------
>>> # ls -s -h
>>> total 4,9M
>>> 104K access_log    4,0K cupsd        968K error_log.3   16K page_log.3
>>>  48K access_log.1  4,0K cups-lpd     968K error_log.4  8,0K page_log.4
>>>  24K access_log.2  1,2M error_log     16K page_log
>>>  36K access_log.3  900K error_log.1   12K page_log.1
>>>  80K access_log.4  656K error_log.2   12K page_log.2
>>> ---------------------
>> 
>> Your Linux distro uses logrotated to rotate the CUPS logs.  You'll
>> need to disable that to keep the logs around.
>> 
>
> So I've lost all the print history since june... Arrgg
> I disable the logrotate in my distro conf (SME_server) or in the cups.conf ?

Have you checked the page_log.* files?

You should disable the logrotate.  The configuration is most likely in
/etc/logrotate.d/cups.

Hope this helps,
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