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Technical Q&A QA1182
Why does logging keep my Printer Module from working?
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Q:
Why does logging keep my Printer Module from working? This used to work fine in Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1.
A:
Unlike in previous versions of Mac OS X,
in Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) the printing system (CUPS) makes use of stdout
to route information between modules.
Any code in a Printer Module (PM) or I/O Module (IOM) that
tries to log to stdout via printf , etc., will
interfere with the printing system. If you must write to
a log file, use fprintf to write to a specific file or send
your log information to stderr . See Listing 1 for examples.
// Write to /private/var/log/cups/error_log
fprintf( stderr, "This message will appear in the CUPS error log." );
// Write to your own log file
fprintf( file, "This message will appear in your own log file" );
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Listing 1. Logging examples
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Be aware that on Jaguar your PMs and IOMs run as
daemon and not the currently logged in user, so if you are logging to a
file via fprintf you'll need to set the appropriate permissions on the destination
directory.
As an additional debugging aid, you can adjust the logging level for the CUPS "error_log"
file by editing the CUPS configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" and changing
LogLevel . Listing 2 shows the relevant
section from "cupsd.conf" that you will need to edit.
#
# LogLevel: controls the number of messages logged to the ErrorLog
# file and can be one of the following:
#
# debug2 Log everything.
# debug Log almost everything.
# info Log all requests and state changes.
# warn Log errors and warnings.
# error Log only errors.
# none Log nothing.
#
LogLevel info
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Listing 2. Controlling the "error_log" logging level from "cups.conf"
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[Nov 06 2002]
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