HELP - how to start printer accounting
Horst Spandl
spandl at ira.uka.de
Wed May 30 02:35:50 AEST 1990
Thanks for your hints concerning printer accounting. They finally set me
on the right track. First, there is no connection between printer
accounting and accton/sa.
> From my experience with printer accounting, only the last host to
> see the file before it hits the printer can do accounting.
Indeed, this seems to be one of my problems. Another problem was that I
did not realize the tight relationship between output filters and printer
accounting. It was absolutely not clear to me that it is a MUST to
specify output filters in addition to the :af=..: field to make accounting
work in the first place.
It would have helped a lot if the man pages on pac(8) and printcap(5) were
more specific on this subject. The entries in the index of the System and
Network Administration Manual are misleading. A cross reference like
"printer accounting, see output filters" would have been nice.
> Network printers (e.g., imagen on ethernet, dec lps40 on decnet, apple
> lw on appletalk/CAP) can have printcap entries that reference the
> network attachment (either in the lp= field or built into the filters)
> such that a given host is the last box to have the file before it hits
> the printer, so accountability is not limited to serial or parallel
> printers physically attached to your system.
The remote host which serves our Apple LaserWriter belongs to another
department. Thus I would love to use a technique as the one described
above. However, I do not have fancy patching filters. Especially as I do
not have any documentation in that direction.
HAS ANYBOY DONE THIS?
Anyway, I think I'll try to talk the other department's system guru into
setting up a monthly/weekly cron job to post the output of pac running on
his machine to me.
Horst Spandl (spandl at ira.uka.de)
Karlsruhe University, West-Germany
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