On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:24:16 -0500
"Keith R. John Warno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps the plethora of ifhp & LPRng options is simply overwhelming, but
> in any case:
> Is there an option to either ifhp or via printcap to have the
> /var/spool/foo-printer/ifhpXXXXXX filter output files removed
> after job completion? Or maybe it's scritable... I don't know
> yet. :)
> I use LPRng-3.8.19 and ifhp-3.5.10 and the printer spools are repeatedly
> cluttered with filter output files.
If I remember right, Dr. Powell is aware of this bug in ifhp.
Here's what we run on our systems to take care of this problem:
find /var/spool -name ifhp\* -xdev -ctime +3 ! -type s ! -type p \
-exec /bin/rm {} \;
Run that once a day out of cron and you shouldn't run into too many
problems...
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