> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 14 15:06:01 2003 > Subject: LPRng: %Q and Accounting > From: "Chris O'Regan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LPRng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 14 Jul 2003 17:31:57 -0400 > > Occasionally we have the need to move one or more queues to another > printer (for example, when a printer needs maintenance). If we do this > using aliases, then it will break our accounting because the value > passed to the accounting script via -P is the primary name, not the > selected queue. That is, since we associate a quota database with a > queue name, the wrong database is selected when an alias is used. > > At the moment, we get around this by creating separate queues, but this > is a bit of a nuissance. What would be neat is if we could get the > selected queue (i.e. %Q) passed to the accounting script. Is this > possible? > > > Thanks, > > Chris
:af=|$- /path/to/script $P $Q .... Or you can use: :af=|/path/to/script which will have -Q 'oroginal quque name' -P 'printer name' as options. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6741 Convoy Court Network and System San Diego, CA 92111 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
