Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:24:10 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to log more detailed lpd actions? Message-ID: <p05100e09b74ea25e0543@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141824380.1128-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141824380.1128-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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At 6:28 PM +0200 6/14/01, Hartmann, O. wrote: >Dear Sirs. > >It is a regretable fact that PS printing systems do not >account over lpd. Not easily, at least... >We use several printer systems and at the moment we turn >into an exorbitant paper and toner consumption. I wish to >log more detailed printing informations due the fact most >of our customers print over SAMBA and do a lot of private >stuff over public printers. Can anbody tell me how to log >in a more detailed manner printing jobs? How are you sending jobs from the print server to the postscript printer? Is the printer directly-connected to the machine running freebsd, or is it a network printer? If it's a network printer, do you print to it using 'lpd-style protocols', or do you use a program such as CAP or Netatalk to talk to the printer via ethertalk? >On UNIX (e.g. FreeBSD) I wish to see the user who printed jobs, >on SAMBA it seems to be a kind of shell script to do this job ... How much information do you want? It's fairly easy to get information on which user sent a job at which time, but it gets more complicated if you want to know how many pages were printed by that job. It gets REALLY complicated if you are sending to something like a large-format plotter, where you also want to know the size of each page that the user prints. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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