On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:50:03PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > Well, after searching around, I can't find anything regarding running > external scripts with cups. At LinuxTag I spoke to the CUPS maintainer of Mandrake and he said it would be necessary to write a new filter driver and design a new MIME type (e.g. application/accounted-postscript) and assign that MIME type to my new filter. You could probably copy a lot from the existing driver but had to integrate your accounting. I thought that was too much effort. =;) > The only *workaround* I can find would be to > somehow make a "filter" that every job passes though, which runs your > script. I would be willing to bet that it's just an oversight on my > part, and a quick post to the cups newsgroups > (http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?Gcups.general+H+VR) would get you an As soon as I get the time to actually _do_ anything I'll have a look there. > answer. However, I also found built-in job accounting (job-billing, > according to ipp), that would probably fit the bill, if you invested a > bit of time rewritting your scripts. If you combine job-billing with > user authentication (both native in cups 1.1), you should be set. The user authentication must be done via Samba and IPP, which (I suppose) is passed along with the job. > HTH, I think it does. Thanks! :) -- Jens Benecke ········ http://www.hitchhikers.de/ - Europas Mitfahrzentrale MSTD, n: MicroSoft Transmitted Disease. Propagates only due to Microsoft's insistence on distributing [software] that resembles Petri dishes. See also ILOVEYOU, Melissa, Code Red, Sircam, IIS. -- http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=MSTD
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