Dear all,
I don't know whether someone has reported this. I'm currently using
LPRng 3.8.19 now. I have tested this from 3.8.3 to 3.8.19, and this
problem remains.
If I use:
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done_jobs= 0
done_jobs_max_age= 1
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then the data files (dfAxxxxx) will not be deleted alone with other
control files (cfAxxxxx and hfAxxx) after the jobs are done. This will
not happen if i set done_jobs to 1 or above. If done_jobs > 0, the
dfAxxxxx, cfAxxxxx and hfAxxx files will be deleted when doing the first
"lpq" after the job is done. But if done_jobs = 0, only control files
will be deleted. The data file dfAxxxxx will stay forever.
Is there a simple configuration setting or compilation option to
solve this? Or is there a patch for this? I tried to hack into the
code, but I failed. It's a little difficult to trace. Any help would
be appreciated.
This causes a big problem on our system. My company uses printers
heavily with a poor print server, due to our budget. We have only about
200MB free space on the print server. Its harddisk will be filled up
every about 3-4 weeks by those remaining done data files. Then nobody
can print for the harddisk full. Now I use a cron job to remove them
and free harddisk space every 3 hours. But I think the problem should
be solved in the codes.
By the way, there's a same problem for ifhp. The done data files
are left by ifhp, too. But I haven't traced it yet, since my company
use samba printing without a print filter. I just list it here in case
that it helps.
I'm using 2 print servers. One is our company server: LPRng 3.8.19,
Linux 2.4.20, Mandrake 8.1, gcc 3.2, glibc 2.2.4, Intel Pentium 133,
32MB ram, 2GB harddisk. The other is my home server: LPRng 3.8.19, ifhp
3.5.10, Linux 2.4.20, Debian 3.0r0, gcc 3.2, glibc 2.3.1, Intel Pentium
III 800, 896MB ram, 20GB harddisk. Both have the same problem.
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