Can anyone tell me how to prevent Cups from leaving a huge number of large files in its - /var/spool/cups directory?

Our system basically stopped working this morning because /var was full.

Cups is the culprit.
It had left over 25 gig of files in the /var/spool/cups directory.

I have deleted all the old (large) files.

Cups should clean up after itself.

Does anyone know a setting to make Cups clean up files when its done?

Or should I add this to the list of things Cups will not do (that there is no real fix for)?

1. Cups CANNOT redirect a queue.
2. Cups disables printers when they have a jam(?).
3. Cups does not clean up after itself and fills disks.

Apologies. But, I am a little frustrated with Cups. There does not seem to be too much help for it either. I saw where others had these problems. But, no real solutions.

Tony

...or, you could let Cron do it for you. Does that system run 24/7? If so, set up a daily Cron job for around - whenever there's nobody around - to flush the folder...

Just a thought...

Luck

Thor

In cupsd.conf
Use the
option
or disable logging
Or as tor said, use cron to delete the rotated log files.

Kind regards

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Actually, you can use the logrotate tool. In spite of its name, it will manage any type of file, not just logs.

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