LPRng: Page Counting
Hi, I'm attempting to do printer accounting with LPRng+ifhp. The printers in use are all HP4000 series (be it 4000, 4050 or 4100). The Page Description Language we are using is PCL (5 i think). Currently, our print jobs from NT workstations are sent via samba to our unix server. From here the job is then forwarded onto a smaller linux box that is attached to the printer's parallel port. The smaller boxes run ZipSlack (7.1, 2.2.16 Linux kernel) and LPRng (3.8.1) and ifhp (3.4.7). We've had to go this route since not all our HP4000's have JetDirect cards installed, some currently use NetGear PS110 print servers, which I'm told can't do bi-directional communications, although I haven't tested it for myself, and really don't have the time. Anyway, I've got things setup relatively smoothly so far, and printing from an NT workstation through to the HP is working. However the *big* problem I'm having is getting a page count back from the printer. I've toyed with the printcap entry for LPRng to no end, and still can't get a page count back. If anyone out there has a working printcap/ifhp.conf/anything else I need, could you please, please please send me a copy/snippet of the relevant code? I'm to the stage where I really need to get things working before this project gets scrapped. I've read (and printed) the ifhp-howto, and read through bits of the LPRng-howto, but I've found the parts on accounting to be a bit thin, I think I really need dumbed down step-by-step instructions on how to get it working, and working examples would be a good place to start. At present most of my printcap has been pieced together from bits and pieces I've read between the two howto's. I just came across a section of interest in the ifhp-howto, section 4.9 - PS,PCL,PJL Printer with Parallel Port Connection. From what I can tell I should probably have :rw defined in my printcap to get the parallel port opened read-write. I had assumed this would have happened by default, but perhaps it could be why I'm not getting a pagecount? We had a mild success today in getting a pagecount to work, basically we followed through the ifhp readme to test it's working, and dumped the one.ps file through ifhp out to a file. We then cut just the top part of the PJL commands out, and inserted our own line, @PJL INFO PAGECOUNT, which I found looking through the ifhp.c source, then echoed the file out to /dev/lp0, and cat'd back /dev/lp0 and we got the magic page count number back. Yet I'm still unable to get LPRng+ifhp to get me this figure, and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, so I'll post our most recent printcap we've been using and see if someone can point me in the right direction. The ifhp.conf file is (to the best of my knowledge) the one that came with ifhp, I don't think I modified it, as I'm sure it had more or less everything correct. The accounting.pl is the one that shipped with LPRng (or was it ifhp?), and I simply copied it to the /usr/local/libexec/filters directory since the examples had it that way. # B10 JetDirect HP Printer # b10-lp :sh :ml=0 :mx=0 :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd :af=acct :ps=status :as=|/usr/local/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start :ae=|/usr/local/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end :filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp :of=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp :ifhp=model=hp4000,of_options=status pagecount waitend #:ifhp=model=default #:of=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp #:ifhp=model=hp6p,of_options=sync pagecount waitend Any help with this would be greatly appreciated :-) PS: Does anyone know where to find a PJL Technical Reference from HP? We have the PCL 5e technical reference in PDF from HP, but even though the cover says PCL/PJL it barely mentions PJL, and pagecount and page count certainly don't exist anywhere in the document. Regards, Chris Lee - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Page Counting
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Christopher Lee wrote: I'm attempting to do printer accounting with LPRng+ifhp. The printers in use are all HP4000 series (be it 4000, 4050 or 4100). The Page Description Language we are using is PCL (5 i think). Anyway, I've got things setup relatively smoothly so far, and printing from an NT workstation through to the HP is working. However the *big* problem I'm having is getting a page count back from the printer. We have just got the following 2 printers to pagecount, our setup is slightly different in that we are using printers with ethernet cards. The key for us (patiently pointed out by Patrick Powell) was to include the lp line and remove the rm line, he also recommended removing the lpd_bounce line (works without it). We have used several different lpr's (3.7.4-23, 3.7.9, 3.8.1) with ifhp 3.4.7 and standard ifhp.conf lpd.conf lpd.perms accounting.pl files. The clients are typically RH7.1. snip from /etc/printcap.local p1:\ :sh:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/p1:\ :lp=p1%9100:\ :if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :ifhp=model=hp4plus:\ :as=|/usr/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/usr/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end:\ :af=acct p2:\ :sh:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/p2:\ :if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp:\ :lp=p2%9100:\ :ifhp=model=hp4050:\ :as=|/usr/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start:\ :ae=|/usr/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end:\ :af=acct The following line proved that the printer could pagecount and confirmed that the 9100 port was correct in our environment. /usr/libexec/filters/ifhp -Tmodel=hp4050,dev=www.xxx.yyy.zzz%9100,trace,debug=0 test2.ps HTH Barry Wright - 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. -
Re: LPRng: Page Counting
hi, I think there was abug in IFHP, discovered last week, concerning accounting on the 4xxx series from HP: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 16 13:11:30 2001 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:11:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Keltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP 4100 page accounting Hi Patrick, I'm pretty sure I've found a bug in ifhp that was causing the problems with the HP 4100 print accounting. This morning, I wrote a little tcl script that talked to the 4100 printer, setting the proper job USTATUS, sending a job, listening for the responses, and everything was as it should be. I then looked at the ifhp code with a coworker and we found the problem. In the function pjl_job(), in ifhp.c, there are these two lines: len = strlen(buffer); SNPRINTF(buffer+len, sizeof(buffer)-len) Job_display, Jobname ); I believe they are both incorrect. First off, buffer has no value up to that point in the function, so why are you getting its length? Also, the SNPRINTF function ends up printing Job_display instead of Jobstart_str which is definately an error. Here are the definitions of both of those: char *Job_display= DISPLAY = \%s\ ; char *Jobend_str=@PJL EOJ NAME = \%s\; ... and in fact, a previous ifhp version did have Jobend_str. I checked. Why this was working on any of our other printers, I do not know. More than likely the 4100 is smarter and doesn't like the bad syntax. The Put_pjl was throwing away the error without commenting on it. The two lines should be replaced with just this one: SNPRINTF(buffer, sizeof(buffer)) Jobstart_str, Jobname ); Works for me.. Jas. Christopher Lee wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to do printer accounting with LPRng+ifhp. The printers in use are all HP4000 series (be it 4000, 4050 or 4100). The Page Description Language we are using is PCL (5 i think). Currently, our print jobs from NT workstations are sent via samba to our unix server. From here the job is then forwarded onto a smaller linux box that is attached to the printer's parallel port. The smaller boxes run ZipSlack (7.1, 2.2.16 Linux kernel) and LPRng (3.8.1) and ifhp (3.4.7). We've had to go this route since not all our HP4000's have JetDirect cards installed, some currently use NetGear PS110 print servers, which I'm told can't do bi-directional communications, although I haven't tested it for myself, and really don't have the time. Anyway, I've got things setup relatively smoothly so far, and printing from an NT workstation through to the HP is working. However the *big* problem I'm having is getting a page count back from the printer. I've toyed with the printcap entry for LPRng to no end, and still can't get a page count back. If anyone out there has a working printcap/ifhp.conf/anything else I need, could you please, please please send me a copy/snippet of the relevant code? I'm to the stage where I really need to get things working before this project gets scrapped. I've read (and printed) the ifhp-howto, and read through bits of the LPRng-howto, but I've found the parts on accounting to be a bit thin, I think I really need dumbed down step-by-step instructions on how to get it working, and working examples would be a good place to start. At present most of my printcap has been pieced together from bits and pieces I've read between the two howto's. I just came across a section of interest in the ifhp-howto, section 4.9 - PS,PCL,PJL Printer with Parallel Port Connection. From what I can tell I should probably have :rw defined in my printcap to get the parallel port opened read-write. I had assumed this would have happened by default, but perhaps it could be why I'm not getting a pagecount? We had a mild success today in getting a pagecount to work, basically we followed through the ifhp readme to test it's working, and dumped the one.ps file through ifhp out to a file. We then cut just the top part of the PJL commands out, and inserted our own line, @PJL INFO PAGECOUNT, which I found looking through the ifhp.c source, then echoed the file out to /dev/lp0, and cat'd back /dev/lp0 and we got the magic page count number back. Yet I'm still unable to get LPRng+ifhp to get me this figure, and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, so I'll post our most recent printcap we've been using and see if someone can point me in the right direction. The ifhp.conf file is (to the best of my knowledge) the one that came with ifhp, I don't think I modified it, as I'm sure it had more or less everything correct. The accounting.pl is the one that shipped with LPRng (or was it ifhp?), and I simply copied it to the /usr/local/libexec/filters directory since the examples had it that way. # B10 JetDirect HP Printer # b10-lp :sh :ml=0 :mx=0 :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd :af=acct :ps=status
LPRng: page counting
Has anybody got a simple guide to page counting and how you turn it on, I damned if we can make it work for a hp8100. Any useful tips appreciated. Ron -- Ron McKeating Computing Officer Computing Services Loughborough University http://www.ronmac.lboro.ac.uk/~ccrjm/ Tel:01509 222329 Fax:01509 223989 - 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. -
Re: LPRng: page counting
What is the printcap you're currently trying? Perhaps you're shutting it off and you don't realize it. I have an 8150 that works fine... two of them, actually. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 732/235.4473 (5-4473) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - Robert Wood Johnson MS - S-B11 On 11 Oct 2001, Ron McKeating wrote: Has anybody got a simple guide to page counting and how you turn it on, I damned if we can make it work for a hp8100. Any useful tips appreciated. Ron -- Ron McKeating Computing Officer Computing Services Loughborough University http://www.ronmac.lboro.ac.uk/~ccrjm/ Tel: 01509 222329 Fax: 01509 223989 - 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. - - 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. -
Re: LPRng: page counting
On 11 Oct 2001, Ron McKeating wrote: Has anybody got a simple guide to page counting and how you turn it on, I damned if we can make it work for a hp8100. Any useful tips appreciated. We are using page counting here on our hp8100 using LPRng v3.7.4 and ifhp v3.4.4. Here is the printcap entry for one of our hp8100s: scfmain1|: :lp=scfmain1.scf.orst.edu%9100: :mx#0:rw:sh: :ps=status :af=acct :lf=log :sd=/var/spool/lpd/scfmain1 :fx=flpv :ifhp=model=hp8100,tbcp :if=/private/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp :as=|/private/ifhp/libexec/filters/acct.pl start :ae=|/private/ifhp/libexec/filters/acct.pl end :ss=scfmain This is using the default, unmodified ifhp.conf file. I have made local modifications to acct.pl to stick the page count in a database, send emails, etc. Andy - 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. -
