> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 4 03:18:06 2001
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:04:53 +0100
> From: Hermann Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: ifhp: pjl_console messages & printer status/debug output
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:05:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > 1) Is it possible to extract PJL and PS status together ? At the
> > > moment it look like this is not possible together, and my
> > > printer delivers sometimes nice page counts during processing
> > > of a pjl encapsulated ps job.
> >
> > Yes, but there is a problem: the job page counts are for the
> > ENCAPSULATED jobs... you may have 1 file with multiple jobs, and you
> > get multiple DIFFERENT page counts, 1 for each job. This is a favorite
> > trick of ... users... who send a 200 page report followed by a 1 page
> > 'job' in a file and get billed for one page... but I digress...
>
> Sorry, that was not good formulated: What I want is not getting the
> pagecount for accounting, but rather for giving the user all the
> info the printer gives back (via lpq -l) so he can see the progress
> of the job. Accounting is fine as it is now. But maybe option
> "statusall" is the right thing - the problem is then just to separate
> all the informations - see next paragraph. Especially for postscript
> errors having this information would be usefull - extract and send
> them to the user via mail or for troubleshooting...
I was under the impression that ifhp put any 'unexpected' error information
or 'unusual' PJL status information into the status file. Is this not
the case for you?
>
> > > 2) Is it possible to get the full status returns from the printers
> > > at stderr, separated from the normal ifhp output which goes
> > > to the status file (or to a separate file) ? Is it possible to
> > > redirect only debug messages to stderr ?
> > > In my opinion that would be nice options, as the "lpq -l" output
> > > looks rather ugly with debugging enabled.
> >
> > Yes. You have the code! Go for it!
>
> Greetings
> Hermann
>
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