Dan Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> I've been fighting with DEC unix osf trying to get accounting and such and
> got fed up.
>
> Now I have a new Linux server running RedHat 6.0 and wondered a few things
> with LPRng over RH Linux's lpd.
>
> 1) Does LPRng provide correct accounting for postscript files as well as
> PCL files sent through Samba? (that was the problem with other platforms,
> it counted PS fine, but always thought PCL was only 1 page).
> Anyones experience show lpd on RH Linux 6.0 accounting work or not work for
> PS & PCL?
LPRng works for me. Accounting (specifically with ifhp) work very well
indeed. Page counts are taken by querying the hardware page counters on
the printer before and after the job.
> 2) I can back it out, but when trying to install RPM's for LPRng, it warned
> "file <several files> from install of LPRng-3.6.26-1 conflicts with file
> from package lpr-0.50-4", so I backed up the conflicting files, and forced
> the install to overwrite. Sound ok? Or should I backout and do differently?
I tend to remove the rpm's of lpd, rhs-printfilters, and printtool, then
install LPRng. YMMV. It doesn't really matter that much as long as
printing works when you're done. It's better to remove the old system
first for tidiness, though.
> 3) Constantly have problems with people sending PS, PCL, PDF, file.ps.gz,
> file.ps.tar, etc to the printer. Does LPRng offer nicer solutions to say,
> hey, this is PDF/gziped/etc, lets convert/uncompress for them???
The ifhp filter handles this stuff. It'll use the file utility to work
out what something is, and it wouldn't be too hard to set up something.
Suggest gzipped/tarred, just unzip/tar. PDF, install acrobat reader, and
use acroread to convert to PostScript. PostScript can be PCL'ified with
ghostscript. Not much you can't do really...
Mike
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