[cups] CUPS filled up /tmp

Mike Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sun Dec 6 17:05:34 PST 2015


Rick,

Those file names don't correspond to anything CUPS would produce... What are the contents of the files?

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> On Dec 6, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Rick Cochran <rcc2 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> Using latest RHEL version of CUPS.
> 
> 
> There are about a dozen files with names of the form "/tmp/cupsxxxxxx" where "xxxxxx" seems to be a random collection of numbers and letters.  The files have today's date.
> 
> 
> Most of the files are empty, but one filled up the 8GB /tmp partition.
> 
> 
> I have "RequestRoot /data/cups/spool" in cupsd.conf.
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> 
> I don't see why CUPS should be putting any files whatsoever in /tmp.
> 
> 
> To be more specific, I do not want CUPS putting any files whatsoever in /tmp.
> 
> 
> Yours,
> 
> -Rick
> 
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