Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting interface with CUPS welcome. Thank you Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting interface with CUPS welcome. You are entering into one of the most troublesome things in system administration. There are two problems: * Relyably determining who's printing * Relyably

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
LPRng calls the script with user information as command line options and the document on STDIN. The script determines the user from the command line option and counts pages in postscript documents by parsing STDIN. If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it is discarded.

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote: If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it is discarded. Windows users have a hard time getting it right. What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe job. We tried that also, however, then you have problems if

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe job. We tried that also, however, then you have problems if printerjobs are cancelled halfway. For us it is OK to forget to count a job from time to time, as the filter queries the printer before and after, the next

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Lee Capps
At 09:46 Thu 20 Oct 2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting interface with CUPS welcome. PyKota: http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Frank Bonnet
Erik Norgaard wrote: LPRng calls the script with user information as command line options and the document on STDIN. The script determines the user from the command line option and counts pages in postscript documents by parsing STDIN. If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: LPRng calls the script with user information as command line options and the document on STDIN. The script determines the user from the command line option and counts pages in postscript documents by parsing STDIN. If the document doesn't look enough