GNOME polling CUPS every 5 seconds and flooding CUPS access log

From: Sebastian Tennant (sebyte_at_smolny.plus.com)
Date: 10/31/05

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Date:  Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:27 +0000

    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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