GNOME polling CUPS every 5 seconds and flooding CUPS access log
sebyte wrote:
>> I'm running a 2 week old installation of Debian Etch on an i686 platform
>> and I've just noticed that my /var/log/cups/access_log is _huge_ (despite
>> daily rotation) because the following two lines are being written every
>> 5 secondss:
>>
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:00 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:00 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>>
>> i.e., 30 seconds of log file looks like this:
>>
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:00 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:00 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:05 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:05 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:10 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:10 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:15 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:15 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:20 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:20 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:25 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:25 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:30 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 72
>> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:30 +0100] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 379
>>
>> My printer's working OK, i.e., it prints fine from most applications,
>> (apart from Firefox).
>>
>> There can be no good reason for such endless repetition of information.
>> Anyone know what's causing it, and how I can stop it?
mike from easy software wrote:
> This is GNOME constantly polling CUPS. I don't know if it can be
> disabled, but I'd ask the GNOME folks for an answer...
Anyone know?
sebyte
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