[cups] CUPS filled up /tmp

[Rick Cochran]

It was PostScript.

The CUPS queues on this system send the print jobs to another server using LPD protocol.

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From: cups-bounces at cups.org <cups-bounces at cups.org> on behalf of Mike Sweet <msweet at apple.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 8:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [cups] CUPS filled up /tmp

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:
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> Using latest RHEL version of CUPS.
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> 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.
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> Most of the files are empty, but one filled up the 8GB /tmp partition.
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> 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.
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> To be more specific, I do not want CUPS putting any files whatsoever in /tmp.
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> Yours,
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> -Rick
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