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Straight-forward Print Quota System for *nix?

Posted by michael on from the and-other-mythical-things dept.

saihung writes: "I pitched a Linux-based file and print queue server to a department at a local university, and they accepted with one caveat: that I also implement print quotas and accounting. The accounting isn't really a big deal, but I've looked high and low and found nothing even approaching comprehensive quota support. Does anyone know of a print quota system for *nix that doesn't amount to "here's a few perl scripts that don't work"?" There are several printing systems under development, but I don't have any idea which would be the easiest to implement a print quota system. Anyone?

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  1. CUPS ? bla. by Zurk · · Score: 2, Informative

    in my time we used to use lpr to do everything.
    real men use pure unix tools .. no fancy software and roll their own accounting/quota system using shell scripts.
    If you really must have a howto on implementation details checks this site out : http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/postscript/ printer_quota

  2. wsPAC by oes · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Univ. of Bonn CS Dept. has a very nice
    homegrown network print accounting/quota system
    written by Walter Steiner that handles different
    cost on different printers, printing budgets,
    accounting to different cost groups etc.

    There is a german description on
    http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/dv/pac/wspac-d e. html

    I suggest you contact pacadm@iai.uni-bonn.de and
    ask if they'll let you have it.

    --Andreas