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Re: Printing and silly students



Jonathan Lassoff wrote:

> I'm trying to put together a system to control pointless print jobs at
> my school. I o to a small boarding school with a Windows-based
> computer lab of about 20 machines at any given time.

> I'm looking for a way of making people responsible for their print jobs
> from Windows machines as well as wireless users on their own laptops. We
> really just need a way to find who issued a print job when big wastes come
> out of the network printer.

CUPS keeps a log file (/var/log/cups/page_log under Debian) that contains
useful accounting data. The CUPS Software Administrator's Manual describes
its format:

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#7_12_3

Adam



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