On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:48:47PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We do, using home-grown database and input filters. I don't actually
use ifhp for most of it, since our stuff was in use before we switched
to LPRng.
Most of our printers are still Appletalk based, and we use the old
CAP60 package to communicate with them via the papif program. It gets
run from a Perl script acting as an input filter - the script tests
the users print balance to check if the job is allowed, then fires it
through papif which prints and gets the pagecount.
The accounting info itself is in a DBM file that various Perl
utilities can tie() to, we have about 6000 student accounts. You'd
probably want to roll this yourself, to fit your environment.
For newer HP's that are IP-addressable, we use a variation on this
theme, but I monitor the printers (HP4500 colour laserjet, and HP2100
BW) via SNMP to watch the pagecounts (I have a similar script that
sort of works for the balky HP2500cm, but it was so bad we sent that
one back).
John Harper
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Academic Computing Coordinator
University of Toronto at Scarborough
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> Hi is there anybody on the list in a university environment that is using lprng
> to provide charged printing to students ??
>
> Ron
>
> Ron McKeating
> Computing Services
> Loughborough University
> 01509 222329
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