Bug#534954: hpijs: Excessive log messages if printer connection is down
Package: hpijs
Version: 3.9.4b-1
Severity: important
Whenever a print job is processed by cups and the hpijs backend fails
to open the connection to the printer, it writes error messages to
syslog every 30 seconds.
In environments where printers are not always online (e.g. to save
energy) this spams the logfiles without need.
If a printer is turned off while printing, hpijs produces even more
error messages. I had a 20GB /var partition filled completely in 17
hours just by these error messages.
I would have expected such messages to be produced only once for each
print job. And the log priority should be no higher than "warning"
because such failures have no impact on the print spooler.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hpijs depends on:
ii cups 1.3.10-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-client 1.3.10-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cupsddk 1.2.3-5+b1 CUPS Driver Development Kit
ii foomatic-filters 4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii ghostscript 8.64~dfsg-1.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii hplip 3.9.4b-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libsnmp15 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
hpijs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages hpijs suggests:
ii hpijs-ppds 3.9.4b-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii hplip-doc 3.9.4b-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - do
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