Lire support for CUPS?

[Egon Willighagen]

On Friday 19 October 2001 08:46, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On LinuxFocus Talkback you wrote:
> > To have lire analyze the "page_log" file produced by CUPS
> > (http://www.cups.org/ , the Common UNIX Printing System, would be really
> > cool. Many print shops need this for accounting purposes. The CUPS
> > page_log logs a line for every printed page containing information on the
> > attributes printer-name, user-name, job-id, date+time,
> > page-number-within-job, number-copies-for-this-page and job-billing...
> >
> > Would this be easy? (I can provide you with a sample of a pag_log file,
> > if none of you folks knows or uses CUPS so far...)

It actually took me just two hours... That easy is it... (though i have
some insight knowledge).

> Yes, that would be an excellent extension to Lire, since printing services
> fit perfectly in our target environment. Please send us your sample log
> file, which we will use for test purposes.

I currently have a 1 line log file, so a larger one is needed for real testing
purposes...

> I assume the CUPS webpage explains the log format? If not, could you give
> some explanation on the fields?

Ok, found that after some browsing...

The output looks like:

Report generated: 2001-10-20 11:31:55 CEST
Reporting on period:
1999-05-20 21:21:05 CEST - 1999-05-20 21:21:05 CEST

  Jobs By Printer

   DeskJet ................................................... 1


This afternoon i shall add more reports. Requests can be emailed
to me. All the code is in CVS.

regards,

Egon

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