On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 14:07:40 -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Hi, > > to address the following bug reports > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/1585380 > https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/4798 > > I have done some fixes in cups-filters (already on the BZR, will be in 1.9.0 > to be released soon). > > But these fixes only work if page logging is not generally disabled in CUPS, > as it is currently with the CUPS which comes with Debian and Ubuntu. > > The disabling is done by a line > > PageLogFormat > > without any assigned value in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. > > One can control this default setting at build time by the > --enable-page-logging option for ./configure, which controls whether > cupsd.conf will have this line or not. > > So my question is whether there is a reason for disabling page logging in > Debian and Ubuntu? If yes, which reason? If no, we should add > > --enable-page-logging > > to the ./configure command line in debian/rules of the CUPS package, to > avoid bug reports like the above-mentioned ones. > > WDYT?
The change in PageLogFormat came in CUPS 2.0b1: Changed the default AccessLogLevel and PageLogFormat to disable the access_log and page_log files by default (<rdar://problem/16495000>) If we knew what rdar://problem/16495000 involved it might be easier to make a decision on reintroducing the previous behaviour. page_log is not readable by a user, so that isn't an issue. If cupsd.conf is left as it is I'd suggest a comment be added: # Disables page logging. Please see cupsd.conf to enable it. PageLogFormat Regards, Brian.
