II : Print-Job accounting
2007-12-25 8:58:00
Here is a neat solution for getting a neat one-line output for
every print job. Thanks to Claude Charest (charest@CANR.Hydro.Qc.CA)
who provided me lot of help.
...manjeet
Solution :
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The trick is to modify your input filter and take advantage of temp file
created while printing. Check your printcap file and look for an entry
like ":if=". Add ":af=" entry also. See eg. below:
lw4|ps|PostScript:\
:mx#0:sb:lp=/var/spool/lw4/.null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lw4:\
:sh:\
:lf=/var/spool/lw4/log:\
:of=/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.of.sh:\
:if=/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.if.sh:\
:af=/var/adm/lpacct:
Now make "/var/adm/lpacct" file world writable and add following lines
in your input filter (/usr/lib/hpnp/hplj.if.sh in this case) :
PATH="/usr/lib/hpnp:$PATH:/usr/ucb"
DATE=`date '+%d/%m/%y-%H%M'`
ACCT="/var/adm/lpacct"
tmp_file=`grep '^cf' lock`
file_name=`grep '^N' $tmp_file
if test "$ACCT" -a -w "$ACCT"
then
echo -n "$LOGIN" >> $ACCT
echo -n ' ' >> $ACCT
echo -n "$HOST" >> $ACCT
echo -n ' ' >> $ACCT
echo -n "$DATE" >> $ACCT
echo -n ' ' >> $ACCT
echo -n "$file_name" >> $ACCT
echo -n ' ' >> $ACCT
echo "" >> $ACCT
fi
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