Re: [linux-delhi] 486 as printserver
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ajit Ranade wrote: (a) is it ok to use the 486 for print logging (i.e. no y2k danger)? if not, what is the absolutely minimum amount that we need to spend to make it y2k compliant? (please don't ask me to upgrade the motherboard.) i thought that all the latter day linuxes have a phony patch which just replaces "00" with year "2000" and this should be good enough for what we need the printserver to do. Ensure that you recycle the log on 31/12 night. Start a new log on 1/1 morning. Should work. Remember 1/1/2000 is a Saturday, so you should have time. (b) how is this print logging actually to be done? specifically we need "who fired the print job" and "how many bytes and pages were printed". also would be nice if some users can be barred from printing on this printer. Page would be difficult to calculate. User name and bytes are possible. Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta Tel: +91(11) 6941831, 6946619 Eurolink Systems LtdFax: +91(11) 6943732 New Delhi, India email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eurolink doesn't pay me to speak for it, so I don't Old age is not an accomplishment, nor youth a sin
Re: [linux-delhi] 486 as printserver
I've just set up a printer accounting thingy using samba for my college. perliminary (2 week testing) seems to show things are pretty good. I'm rushed for time right now, but i plan to document this completely and post a FAQ, to get started, you can see the printer-accounting samples in /usr/doc/samba-XXX/examples/printer-accounting. You have to hack things a bit to get them to work, but that's the fun isn't it ? all the stuff/ who/when/pages/bytes/restricted users can be done. Quite easily too. nikk "Beauty is transitory." "Beauty survives." -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ajit Ranade wrote: we have an old 486sx-25 running rh 5.2. i am pretty sure that its bios is not y2k compliant. however we would like to use this machine to log all print activity. print jobs are fired from various win95/98 boxes as well as linux boxes. the printer itself is an hp2100 tn with an ethernet card. the win boxes "see" the netwook printer connected to the 486 rh box thru samba. linux boxes send print jobs directly to the printer's ip number. my question is- (a) is it ok to use the 486 for print logging (i.e. no y2k danger)? if not, what is the absolutely minimum amount that we need to spend to make it y2k compliant? (please don't ask me to upgrade the motherboard.) i thought that all the latter day linuxes have a phony patch which just replaces "00" with year "2000" and this should be good enough for what we need the printserver to do. (b) how is this print logging actually to be done? specifically we need "who fired the print job" and "how many bytes and pages were printed". also would be nice if some users can be barred from printing on this printer. thanks for any help. ajit ranade.
Re: [linux-delhi] 486 as printserver
(b) how is this print logging actually to be done? specifically we need "who fired the print job" and "how many bytes and pages were printed". also would be nice if some users can be barred from printing on this printer. Page would be difficult to calculate. User name and bytes are possible. If you want page counts, you might want to look at LPRng and the filters that go with it. The hp filter will access the page counters on some HP printers. I havent tried it out myself yet. Check out www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html for more info. bye Anmol
