[Gllug] Print Quota system

[Darran D. Rimron-Molloy]

Yes. Please :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Simon A. Boggis
> Sent: 09 January 2002 20:03
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Cc: R.J.Hall at rhul.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Print Quota system
>
>
> On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 17:12, Hall RJ wrote:
> > Does anyone know of or use a Free method of restricting printer usage.
> > Some of our students are taking the piss with the current setup
> of unlimited
> > printing.   Although we don't want to charge them for usage I
> would like to
> > force a weekly/monthly limit on pages printed.   There seems to
> be nothing
> > available open source that I can see only commercial packages.
> >
> > === === === === === === === === ===
> > Richard Hall
> > Systems Administrator
> > Information Security Group
> > Royal Holloway, University of London
> > Tel: +44 (0)1784 44 3111
> > Fax: +44 (0)1784 430766
> > === === === === === === === === ===
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I had the same problem, and opted for a very similar solution. I've
> written some perl which interacts with lprng and HP printers (or indeed
> other printers which can return page counts to lprng) which doles out
> print quota in chunks each week. I've never released it, as it would
> need some tidying and documentation and has a couple of bugs that I know
> but don't care much about. I started work on a second version in the
> summer but events overtook me and "version 2" is (still) not finished.
>
> We've been using my solution for a couple of years to drive 3 (now 4)
> HP8000's.
>
> I could share what I've done with you if it sounds interesting.
>
> Simon
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr Simon A. Boggis 					Systems Programmer
> Department of Computer Science,
> Queen Mary, University of London, London E1 4NS UK.     Tel. 020
> 78827522
>
> --
> Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
> http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug
>
>



-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug