On Mon, 14 May 2001, Dan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Has anyone thought to put some of the output into a web page for the users?
>
> We have 3 different platforms and 3 different types of printers. I thought
> of having a "one stop shop" place for users to see how the queues are in
> case they are looking for their job.
>
> In the very simplest form, it would be a link to a cgi-bin that does a lpq -t
> A "rough" example is at http://www.physics.syr.edu/cgi-bin/printstatus2
> but it's a bit messy for users to read. Just adding some linefeeds and
> bold would help.
> 2nd attempt at http://www.physics.syr.edu/cgi-bin/printstatus3
>
> Maybe even make it a bit more user friendly, allowing them to click on the
> printer they want more status on, and even be able to cancel their jobs...
> after having them fill in user/password in a web form.
>
> Of course this is all open to discussion (offline) for security / user
> trustworthiness, etc... that set aside... it would be a page only
> accessible from our local access only intranet.
>
> I wondered if anyone has developed anything similar... as to not "re-invent
> the wheel"
We do something similar, but it is not for the end users. Our script is
for the lab consultants and admin to manage the print jobs in the queue.
You can see a static snapshot of the one of the pages at:
http://web.orst.edu/~morgan/webq.html
There are several buttons and links on that page for controlling the queue
and the jobs in the queue.
I can post the perl script which generates this if you're interested.
Andy
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