[cups] /var/spool/cups?

Bryan Mason bmason at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 15:03:28 PST 2017


On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 17:25 -0500, Alan Corey wrote:
> I just discovered that apparently everything I've ever printed is
> still in /var/spool/cups.  Is this normal?  ... Is there an option
> somewhere to not keep this stuff?

Whether or not job files are retained in /var/spool/cups is controlled
by the "PreserveJobHistory" directive in cupsd.conf.  See the entry for
PreserveJobHistory in https://www.cups.org/doc/man-cupsd.conf.html for
more detail.

Regards,

~ Bryan Mason



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