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Subject:    Re: LPRng: Accounting question (like so many others)
From:       papowell () astart ! com
Date:       1999-12-28 0:26:40
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> From lprng@astart2.astart.com Wed Nov 24 12:40:07 1999
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:30:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@umdnj.edu>
> To: lprng@lprng.org
> Subject: LPRng: Accounting question (like so many others)
>
> You've probably heard all of this before, so let me be brief. I have a lab
> of machines running mainly Windows (some Mac's however) and a centralized
> HP-UX server running Samba and standard HP lp and whatever Mac thing we
> use (ZiNet or something like that?).
>  
> HP's lp, I am now aware, does not seem to use /etc/printcap at all, making
> the process apparently much uglier for use with ifhp... I have tried so
> far simply printing with ifhp (y'know, ifhp -nnovosirj -Pprinter
> accountingfile < filetoprint), and it works very nicely (out of curiosity,
> how is it that my username comes into the LED display of the printer? It
> used to be PID, and I'm wondering what sets this).
>
> My supervisor is looking to do something with print quotas -- his
> estimates on wasted paper are VERY high and he wishes to do something
> about it. I am sure that there are many ways around certain systems, but
> we are looking for basics at the moment. He wishes to issue a page quota,
> that can be manually augmented later at a fee. And yes, I know I will
> waste more effort than necessary the amount of paper I will save, but I'm
> a volunteer, so what do they care? ;)
>  
> What sort of database can be used? Can LPRng be forced to check
> beforehand, perhaps during the input filter process to see if a user is
> allowed to print WITHOUT hacking LPRng code? Can this be done at all with
> HP's method of spooling?
>
> And finally, just another question I didn't see an answer to, would LPRng
> require much work to compile on an HP-UX system (of course with GNU make,
> and possibly GNU CC if the need be)?

None.  Should be OK.

>
> I have read the LPRng FAQ prior to sending this e-mail, so I have a basic
> knowledge of how it works, but please if you can avoid it, do not direct
> me right back there because I did not find clear answers (perhaps they did
> not hit my understanding) in the FAQ to my questions.
>  
> Thank you in advance -- LPRng looks to be very promising software for our
> purposes.
>  
> -------- ---- --- -- - 
> Ryan Novosielski - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
> Academic Computer Services / IST Department -- novosirj@umdnj.edu	
> - -- --- ---- --------

Did this get fixed up?


Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies,
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