Straight-forward Print Quota System for *nix? 7
saihung writes: "I pitched a Linux-based file and print queue server to a department at a local university, and they accepted with one caveat: that I also implement print quotas and accounting. The accounting isn't really a big deal, but I've looked high and low and found nothing even approaching comprehensive quota support. Does anyone know of a print quota system for *nix that doesn't amount to "here's a few perl scripts that don't work"?" There are several printing systems under development, but I don't have any idea which would be the easiest to implement a print quota system. Anyone?
CUPS ? bla. (Score:2, Informative)
real men use pure unix tools
If you really must have a howto on implementation details checks this site out : http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/postscript
Jargon watch (Score:2)
"in my time" must have been the '70s or early '80s. Anything that happend in the late '80s or '90s is "back in the day."
CUPS (Score:3, Interesting)
wsPAC (Score:3, Informative)
homegrown network print accounting/quota system
written by Walter Steiner that handles different
cost on different printers, printing budgets,
accounting to different cost groups etc.
There is a german description on
http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/dv/pac/wspac-
I suggest you contact pacadm@iai.uni-bonn.de and
ask if they'll let you have it.
--Andreas