Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:22:40 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: norgaard@math.ku.dk Cc: f.bonnet@esiee.fr, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing quota ? Message-ID: <200510200922.j9K9MelY058003@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201050460.17069@shannon.math.ku.dk> (message from Erik Norgaard on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:53:22 %2B0200 (CEST)) References: <43574B5E.4020503@esiee.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201022100.16790@shannon.math.ku.dk> <200510200845.j9K8j7kB057664@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510201050460.17069@shannon.math.ku.dk>
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> > What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe > > job. > > We tried that also, however, then you have problems if printerjobs > are cancelled halfway. For us it is OK to forget to count a job from time to time, as the filter queries the printer before and after, the next job will start a new count anyway. > Also, the "sanity" check works against accepting print jobs that > will cause the the printer to print endless pages with strange > characters untill it runs out of paper or the job is cancelled. We > had a lot of those because of misconfigured windows machines. Well, I have my guy install the printers on the machines for the users, so they use the right driver :) Olivier
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