Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:11:05 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to log more detailed lpd actions? Message-ID: <002201c0f572$b95b0200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106141824380.1128-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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You generally cannot get an _accurate_ page count for PostScript jobs by mucking around with the job while it's in the spool. However, it's possible to get THE PRINTER TO TELL YOU what the number of printed pages were. You do, of course need 3 things, first bidirectional communication with the printer, second you need a printer smart enough to do it, and third you need the spooling software to do it. An example is the PPR distribution at ftp://ppr-dist.trincoll.edu/pub/ppr/ Let us know what you had to do to get it to compile and run under FreeBSD. I built the 1.31 ppr distribution once under FreeBSD but didn't get it to work. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Hartmann, O. >Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:28 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: How to log more detailed lpd actions? > > >Dear Sirs. > >It is a regretable fact that PS printing systems do not account over >lpd. >We use several printer systems and at the moment we turn into >an exorbitant paper and toner consumption. I wish to logg 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? > >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 ... > >-- >MfG >O. Hartmann > >ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de >---------------------------------------------------------------- >IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz >Becherweg 21 >55099 Mainz > >Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) >Tel: +496131/3924144 >FAX: +496131/3923532 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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