Lire support for CUPS?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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. 

[....]

> > 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...)
> 
> 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.

OK, there is the /var/log/cups/page_log attached (as of my demo-laptop); later
in the day (when it is re-connected), I'll send another log from my main 
server.

> I assume the CUPS webpage explains the log format?

You can find all CUPS documentation at http://www.cups.org/documentation.html.
The explanation about the log format is inside the "Software Administrator
Manual" at http://www.cups.org/sam.html#PRINTER_ACCOUNTING.

> If not, could you give
> some explanation on the fields?

extract from "Software Administrator Manual":

The page_log File
-----------------
The page_log file lists each page that is sent to a printer. Each line contains 
the following information:

 printer |user |job-id |date-time                    |page-number |num-copies |job-billing
 --------+-----+-------+-----------------------------+------------+-----------+-----------
 DeskJet |root |2      |[20/May/1999:19:21:05 +0000] |1           |0          |acme-123

The  p r i n t e r  field contains the name of the printer that printed the 
page. If you send a job to a printer class, this field will contain the name 
of the printer that was assigned the job.

The  u s e r  field contains the name of the user (the IPP requesting-user-name 
attribute) that submitted this file for printing.

The  j o b - i d  field contains the job number of the page being printed. 
Job numbers are reset to 1 whenever the CUPS server is started, so don't 
depend on this number being unique!

The  d a t e - t i m e  field contains the date and time of when the page 
started printing. The format of this field is identical to the data-time 
field in the access_log file.

The  p a g e - n u m b e r  and  n u m - p a g e s  fields contain the page 
number and number of copies being printed of that page. For printer that 
can not produce copies on their own, the num-pages
field will always be 1.

The  j o b - b i l l i n g  field contains a copy of the job-billing 
attribute provided with the IPP create-job or print-job requests or "-" 
if none was provided. 

> kind regards,
> 
> Egon

Sorry, for not being able to respond more quickly. Have been at "SYSTEMS 
2001" and very successfully presented CUPS + KDEPrint (and infected one 
GNOME developer to add a GNOME interface to CUPS...   ;-)

Cheers,
Kurt

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