[cups] /var/spool/cups?

Bryan Mason bmason at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 15:05:34 PST 2017


On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 15:03 -0800, Bryan Mason wrote:
> 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.

Oops.  That should be "PreserveJobFiles", not "PreserveJobHistory"
(PreserveJobHistory controls the retention of the job control files).
Sorry for the confusion.

~ Bryan




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