Cleaning Out Log Files

The lpsched and requests log files in the /var/lp/logs directory grow as information is appended. The LP print service uses a default cron job to clean out the log files. The lp cron job is located in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/lp file. It periodically moves the contents of the log files. The contents of log are moved to log.1, and the contents of log.1 are moved to log.2. The contents of log.2 are lost (that is, replaced by the former contents of log.1) when log.2 gets overwritten.

# pwd
/var/lp/logs
# tail requests
s 0x1010
= slw2-20, uid 200, gid 200, size 5123, Mon Jun 16 12:27:33 MDT
1997
z slw2
C 1
D slw2
F /etc/motd
P 20
t simple
U irving
s 0x1010
#