Printer accounting and cutoff from UNIX: is it possible?

[Peter da Silva]

> >>BTW: Why does UNIX have a cutoff for disk usage (quota) but not for 
> >>printer usage?

> >Because the system won't crash if the printer runs out of paper,
> >but it will if it runs out of swap space!

> First of all, not all UNIX systems "crash" if they run out of swap space.

> Second of all, the disk space usage was for *files*, not for *swap space*.

Third, UNIX doesn't have a cutoff for disk usage. Some versions of UNIX do,
but it's not universal. Most of the systems that support quotas are based on
the BSD branch of the family tree, which was designed for an academic environ-
ment. Quotas have some validity there, but are less than useful in the Real
World (tm).
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