On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ajit Ranade wrote:
> (a) is it ok to use the 486 for print logging (i.e. no y2k danger)? if
> not, what is the absolutely minimum amount that we need to spend
> to make it y2k compliant? (please don't ask me to upgrade the
> motherboard.) i thought that all the latter day linuxes have a
> phony patch which just replaces "00" with year "2000" and this
> should be good enough for what we need the printserver to do.
Ensure that you recycle the log on 31/12 night. Start a new log on 1/1
morning. Should work. Remember 1/1/2000 is a Saturday, so you should
have time.
> (b) how is this print logging actually to be done? specifically we need
> "who fired the print job" and "how many bytes and pages were
> printed". also would be nice if some users can be barred from
> printing on this printer.
Page would be difficult to calculate. User name and bytes are possible.
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