Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:51:25 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: cups or HPLIP - overeager notification of syslog messages Message-ID: <ef8c8a880907251951n310ec81er8da544de5ca2cbc3@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I am testing HPLIP 3.9.6, from the latest port candidate on this mailinglist. Tonight I was changing my cupsd.conf so that I could access my printer from another machine on the local network. During that exercise, I made a few errors, which resulted in cupsd writing those errors to syslog, which is all fine, and the way I like it. However; those messages wer _also_ printed on _al_l terminals (xterms) I had active on the machine cupsd is running on. No, we are not just talking about the one xterm which I am using as a root shell on this machine, but _all_ xterm's, no matter what they were doing. Urgh - bad decision, very bad. Here is the messages in /var/log/messages: Jul 26 03:53:15 kg-v2 cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! Jul 26 03:53:53 kg-v2 cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! Jul 26 03:54:49 kg-v2 last message repeated 2 times And here they are from an idle xterm: tingo@kg-v2$ Message from syslogd@kg-v2 at Jul 26 03:53:15 ... kg-v2 cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! Message from syslogd@kg-v2 at Jul 26 03:53:53 ... kg-v2 cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting! Message from syslogd@kg-v2 at Jul 26 03:54:49 ... kg-v2 last message repeated 2 times I haven't seen this problem before, and I have used cups and hplip since hplip was fiurst ported to FreeBSd. I do not know if the fault lies with HPLIP ( I suspect the systray app, but I have no evidence) Nor do I know if this is just a fault in the program itself, or if it is because of the porting to FreeBSD (most likely it hasn't anything to do with it). HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen,
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