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- From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: postscript printer accounting / AIX
- Message-ID: <86624@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:26:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.182025.25752@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.140212.7598@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan19.140212.7598@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> merrick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tom Merrick) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan15.182025.25752@syma.sussex.ac.uk> peterk@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Peter J Knowles) writes:
- >>I wish to keep statistics of number of pages printed by user for a
- >>postscript printer. The system is IBM RS6000 / AIX 3.2, and so the
- >>solution might or might not use the queue accounting facilities of AIX.
- >>
- >>Has anyone done it already, please?
- >
- >There is no accounting information written by AIX for postscript printers.
- >
- >The problem lies in the fact that you would need a full postscript interpreter
- >in order to find out how many pages were written. In the simplest case, you
- >could just could the showpage commands. But, usually the showpage command is
- >conditionally generated via macros, who depend on font sized, etc.
-
- Or better yet, you would use a program like lprps which will go out and
- querry the pagecounter that is kept on the printer to find out how many
- pages have actually been printed (then you don't have to worry about
- people redefining showpages and the like).
-
- I've just installed lprps on one of our Ultrix machines and it seems to
- work great. I'm getting ready to try the same thing under AIX, and I'm
- curious to know what AIX does with certain files: /etc/remote, /etc/ttys,
- /etc/printcap. I'm going to have a look through /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm
- but I'd appreciate any tips on setting up this program under AIX.
-
- >Tom Merrick
- >Ohio State University
-
-
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- Vince Taluskie taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu
- Unix Services Physics Computer Group University of Texas at Austin
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