[Wylug-help] print quota

[Roger Leigh]

John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Steve King wrote:
>
>> Anyone know how to go about setting up a printer quota system?
>
> I'd suggest starting with the cups admin guide:
>
> http://www.cups.org/sam.html#4_3_6
>
> That should at least get the basics of what you want, giving you quotas on a
> per user, per printer basis.
>
> If you wanted different quotas for different users with cups, I suspect you
> need to setup different queues for the different classes, which is a bit of a
> ball ache.

The next major release of CUPS (1.2.0) will include full quota
support.  Currently, it's not really flexible enough to meet
everyone's needs.


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Roger Leigh

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