same action is repeatedly logged

[Rui Matos]

On current dapper using:
ii cupsys 1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu2
ii gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu1

as long as gnome-cups-icon is running on my session I get this on /var/log/cups/access_log:

localhost - - [28/Jan/2006:00:38:54 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72 CUPS-Get-Default successful-ok
localhost - - [28/Jan/2006:00:38:55 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72 CUPS-Get-Printers successful-ok
localhost - - [28/Jan/2006:00:38:55 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 369 Get-Printer-Attributes successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attribu
localhost - - [28/Jan/2006:00:38:55 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 372 Get-Printer-Attributes successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attribu
localhost - - [28/Jan/2006:00:38:55 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379 Get-Printer-Attributes successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attribu

continuosly making that log file grow bigger and bigger.

[Gaëtan Petit (gaetanp)]

because of :
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/30136

i confirm this.

Tenshu

[Gaëtan Petit (gaetanp)]

i put this major because a 1gb access.log it's really huge!
Moreover continuosly wrinting on disk increase power consumption on laptop systems

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

I successfully disabled this using

  AccessLog /dev/null

in cupds.conf. I don't see an option to turn it off as such. Unless there's another fix for the bug I think this should be put in the default configuration.

The option for rotating the log files does not seem to effect the access log.

[Jan Ischebeck (siesel)]

I got a 2GB log file.
After running short of diskspace and having no space left on the device anymore for 2-3 h, I started to free up some space.
While I was removing 1,8 GB of files, the access_log logfile started to increase in size. After 10min I still had only 34Mbyte of free space, because the log file grew so fast.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 cupsys (1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/rules: Do not install dangling pdftops.conf symlink. (Malone #26785)
   * debian/cupsys.preinst: Remove a dangling pdftops.conf symlink on upgrades
     to this version.
   * debian/cupsys.postinst: Add cupsys to group 'scanner' to be able to access
     printer/scanner combined devices. (Malone #29050)
   * debian/patches/44_fixconfdirperms.dpatch: Make /etc/cups/ppd group
     writable. (Malone #31533)
   * debian/cupsys.init.d: Make sure that page_log exists with the right
     permissions. (Malone #33409)
   * Add debian/patches/51_dont_log_ipp_printer_query.dpatch: Do not flood
     access_log with successful CUPS-Get-Printers and Get-Printer-Attributes
     queries (which are generated by gnome-cups-icon every 3 seconds). This is
     a hideous and hackish patch, but it has to do until we dbusify cupsys
     properly. (Malone #29895)

[Paul Coleman (pdcoleman)]

The hideous and hackish hack did nothing for my sys. Still getting this every 5 sec.
localhost - - [09/Mar/2006:17:02:53 -0500] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72 CUPS-Get-Default successful-ok
localhost - - [09/Mar/2006:17:02:58 -0500] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72 CUPS-Get-Default successful-ok

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Same as Paul Coleman. I still have the line every 5 seconds.

cupsys 1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu4

[psylence519 (psylence519)]

Getting the same 5-second writes, on two boxes here, both
cupsys 1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu4. The AccessLog /dev/null was all I could do to shut up my hard drives...

[Dhonn (dhonn)]

I get the same thing also take note that ~/xsession-errors is growing as well because of the cupsys errors.

There is still random disk activity other than this when the computer is idle.

I filed this bug: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35660

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed locally, will upload soon.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

the fix is not uploaded yet.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 cupsys (1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu5) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/51_dont_log_ipp_printer_query.dpatch: Suppress logging of
     successful CUPS_GET_DEFAULT messages, too. Closes: LP#29895
   * debian/pdftops: Fix reading from stdin. Closes: LP#17124

[Rui Matos (tiagomatos)]

This bug returned in the 1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu6 version. The exact same messages are repeatedly being logged into /var/log/cups/access_log again.

[psylence519 (psylence519)]

Yup, getting the messages again! Hooray :|

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Yes, sorry, already noticed that and fixed locally.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 cupsys (1.1.99.b1.r4929-0ubuntu7) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/cupsys.init.d: Move log_end_msg to the right place again.
   * Add debian/patches/53_usr_share_ppd_support.dpatch:
     - Look for PPDs in /usr/share/ppd, according to
       http://wiki.debian.org/PpdFileStructureSpecification.
     - Fixes Debian bug #358186.
   * debian/rules: Install PPD files into /usr/share/ppd/cups-included,
     according to above specification.
   * debian/patches/54_cups-config_modeldir.dpatch: Add --modeldir to
     cups-config so that other packages can use it to figure out the correct
     PPD base path.
   * debian/libcupsys2.shlibs: Bump version number so that other packages can
     rely on cups-config's modeldir.
   * Re-add debian/patches/51_dont_log_ipp_printer_query.dpatch, since these
     log messages are routed through a different code path.
   * debian/cupsys.init.d: Change custom PPD path from /usr/share/cups/ppd to
     /usr/share/ppd/custom.