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jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

Posts: 276

How to stop the cups error log file become so big?

Just had this freeze occur:

Nov 28 17:07:00 myarch systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 620.
Nov 28 17:07:00 myarch systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory /run/user/620...
Nov 28 17:07:00 myarch systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/620.
Nov 28 17:07:00 myarch systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 620.
Nov 28 17:08:00 myarch kernel: perf: interrupt took too long (3140 > 3138), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 63600
Nov 28 17:23:54 myarch dhcpcd[495]: dhcp_bind: No space left on device
-- Reboot --
Nov 28 17:36:57 myarch kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x2e, date = 2018-04-10

The reboot happened when I saw a white blinking underscore in the upperleft corner of my monitor.
I actually did not catch it at first

Anyhow, I am totally surprised how / had gotten so full. I am pretty sure that just 2 weeks ago, I had about 12 GB free space (out of 40).
I worked through Cleaning the package cache but only got back 2.2 GB so far.

So by using baobab, I identified /var/log/cups having a size of 18.9 GB.
The problem is error_log, which grew to about 17 GB. What can I do to stop that?

Some info:

$ pacman -Q linux
linux 4.19.4.arch1-1
$ pacman -Q cups
cups 2.2.9-1

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: How to stop the cups error log file become so big?

Ensure that cups is tarted (typing lpq in a terminal will do). Point your browser to http://localhost:631 Go to Administration. Click Advanced in the "Server Settings" option. You will see an option to set the maximum log size. But I am surprised. It is set by default to 1mb. Have you changed it in the past?

Last edited by olive (2018-11-28 18:25:53)

jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

Posts: 276

Re: How to stop the cups error log file become so big?

It was set to 0.
I have not changed it.
Wanted to change it to 1mb, but was prompted to enter login details. Will have some reading to do.

Last edited by jones (2018-11-28 18:30:47)

WorMzy

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Re: How to stop the cups error log file become so big?

The problem is error_log, which grew to about 17 GB. What can I do to stop that?

Fix the problems.

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olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: How to stop the cups error log file become so big?

It was set to 0.
I have not changed it.
Wanted to change it to 1mb, but was prompted to enter login details. Will have some reading to do.

For the login, give the root one (and password). I suspect 0 mean "unlimited" (but I am not sure).