> From: Danial Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: LPRng: OT: Web printer status summary?
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Dan Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> > Has anyone thought to put some of the output into a web page for the users?
> > [ SNIP ]
>
> There's the LPRng lpinfo tool by Alek Komarnitsky. The web page is
> http://www.komar.org/pres/lpinfo/ .
>
> The latest version is 2.63 from June 3, 2000. It's quite involved to configure for
> your own site. It does a pretty good job of letting users see printer status, and
> allowing administrators to manage jobs and queues. One of my projects is to
> improve the lpinfo tool so we can use it to manage printing in the computer
> laboratories.
FYI FWIW: As the author of lpinfo, I can assure you that while
it hasn't changed in a while, we use it for production use at
a LARGE site every day ... just hasn't been a need to tweek it.
Not saying it has everything in there ... nor that it does
not have bugs ... but it works pretty well in our environment.
It IS a bit of work to install (there's also some nifty bells & whistles),
and the Perl code is UGLY ... but I'm always open for bug fixes and/or
code enhancements and (assuming they are "reasonable") would be happy
to feed 'em back into the source stream.
alek
P.S. There is also a presentation about how we use LPRng at:
http://www.komar.org/ -> Misc. Tech Stuff -> LPRng
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