I set the quotas both ways(though lpadmin and by editing printers.conf) and neither seem to work(i did restart the daemon) but print requests are still granted with no error. What is wrong?(i am running ubuntu linux 9.04)
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There is no way to do anything else but speculation if you don't provide a detailed record of what exactly your lpadmin command was, or what manipulation of the printers.conf file you made. (Also note, that direct editing of printers.conf is not recommended unless you do it while cupsd is stopped.)
CUPS' quotas do work for me. However, the last job crossing the quota threshold will always start printing, since CUPS does know about its number of pages only after starting to process the jobfile, not beforehand...
pipitas
2010-06-05 20:55:30
so if someone tries to print 100 pages in one job and the quota allows 4 more pages, cups will simply allow them to do it??
fakedrake
2010-07-10 23:39:47
*"so if someone tries to print 100 pages in one job and the quota allows 4 more pages, cups will simply allow them to do it??"* -- Yes.
pipitas
2010-07-11 08:46:00
If you need a really powerful accounting software (which you can tweak into every imagineable direction) working with CUPS then have a look at PyKota (http://www.pykota.com/).
pipitas
2010-07-11 08:48:30