El Fri, 25 Aug 2000, tu escribiste:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 24 20:53:13 2000
> > From: "Hendrik (Network Administrator)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RE: LPRng: Accounting Script
> > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:41:39 +1200
> >
> > Patrick Powell Replied...
> >
> > > Try accounting.pl
> >
> > Right, thanks for this. I extracted accounting.pl from a tar ball [wasn't
> > in the RPM
> > install] and 'installed' it, and all appears fine.
> >
> > However, I'm a Teacher administrator, not a techo, so excuse me for asking
> > for more
> > [aka Oliver Twist].
> >
> > Are there any other scripts/examples available that demonstate how to link
> > to a database,
> > or that can go through the resulting acct file and show totals per user
> > etc?
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Hendrik
> >
>
> This is part of the commercial support stuff for LPRng.
>
> We sell this as part of our consulting services due to the
> rather high effort needed to set up and do accounting.
>
> I used to support this as part of LPRng and discovered
> that I/we were spending a disproportionate amount of time
> supporting this (and for no money).
>
> Now if somebody wants to purchase a support contract to
> have this added to LPRng and have me/us support this
> for the general distribution, I am open to suggestions.
If we are talking about large amounts of data, so that you'll need
a commercial RDBMS to store the data, I think it is ok to keep it
as a commercial support.
On the other hand if we are talking about 300 users and 5 printers
(my case) it doesn't take more than 50 lines in perl to connect to a mysql
database and verify if the user is able to print (thanks to the great
accounting.pl!), and 30 lines in sh/awk/sed to control the daily usage, quota
update, etc (based, again, on the usage of accounting.pl)
Just my opinion.
Sebastian
Santiago, Chile
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