On Saturday 18 May 2019 04:25:51 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 18 May 2019 04:17:54 am Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Saturday 18 May 2019 10.00:36 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > My newly installed stretch/tde logs are being heavily spammed by a > > > task > > > > hpfax seems to be part of HPLIP. > > > > I find it here: usr/lib/cups/backend/hpfax > > > > You may try renaming it and, if hplip doen't protest, delete it. > > renamed it to hpfox, watching syslog. No squawks yet. We'll see by > daylight. > > Thanks. > > > Regards, > > > > Thierry Had this in the log when I woke for the day: May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: State 'stop-final-sigterm' timed out. Killing. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: Killing process 1229 (hpfax) with signal SIGKILL. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: Killing process 1236 (python) with signal SIGKILL. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: Killing process 1253 (sh) with signal SIGKILL. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: Killing process 1254 (hp) with signal SIGKILL. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: Unit entered failed state. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Closed CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler. May 18 01:08:36 coyote systemd[1]: Started Make remote CUPS printers available locally. May 18 01:08:37 coyote colord[734]: failed to get session [pid 22342]: No such device or address May 18 01:08:37 coyote colord[734]: failed to get session [pid 22342]: No such device or address May 18 01:08:37 coyote colord[734]: failed to get session [pid 22342]: No such device or address Wierdsville. localhost:631 looks normal, everythings there. Now, pursuant to a log message, which showed me where cups keep its filters, I tried to add the missing filter using tde_print. /But it wouldn't let me do anything. It was asking for roots passwd, and root doesn't have one, I do everything of that nature with sudo, and if needed, su from there. It would not accept my pw for sudo. How do I fix this? Cups 2.21 itself has no provision in its configuration sequence to set a filter, one supplied by brother... > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > > list messages on the web archive: > > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > > top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>