cups 1.1.7 takes a long time to reboot

[Biker Conrad]

Thanks. I had about 100,000 files. I didn't restart the server but I think you hit the nail. I will post another message just to confirm that this fixed the issue.


> 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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