cups 1.1.7 takes a long time to reboot

[Michael Sweet]

Biker Conrad wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have a redhat as 3.0 (Linux javaapp2 2.4.21-37.ELsmp ) with cups 1.1.7. All the printers (12) we print to  are windows printers configured through samba. Lately we have experienced long cupsd boot times, 10-13min.
> 
> I was wondering if you have any idea what might cause these long boot times? Could it be that the windows servers are not available? Is cupsd trying to connect to the windows servers during the system boot?
> 
> If I set the LogLevel to debug2 would I be able to see what the service does?

1.1.7 is ancient.

Anyways, the long boot times might be caused by excess job history
data; removing all of the "c" files from the /var/spool/cups
directory (which, BTW, will cancel all jobs) and then stopping and
starting cups will eliminate that startup delay.

You can use the MaxJobs directive in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to set
the maximum number of jobs that are kept - the default in 1.1.7 was
0 (unlimited), while newer releases have a default of 500 jobs.

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