pay system using cups

[walto at vaag.cx]

Anonymous wrote:
> walto: walto at vaag dot cx; wrote:
> >
> > I'm working at a dutch university. I'm hired to transform the windows
> > network into a linux network.
> >
> > The last thing I've got to figure out, is how I can keep a score for
> > how much every student prints, so the school can charge them aftherwards.
> >
> > They now run software on a windows machine to do this, but ofcourse
> > I want this on linux as well.
> >
> > every student has a login account.
> >
> > I'll be using ldap for account information, perhaps I could use ldap
> > to keep te score?
>
> You can do this with PyKota which supports either PostgreSQL or any LDAP server to store its datas (PostgreSQL will usually give better performance though)
>
> See http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/
>
hey, this looks great, just what I needed. I'll think I'll integrate it with ldap, to keep things in one database. Performace isn't that much of a problem. I've got a P4 to account for 20 students (and do a lot of other jobs ofcourse).

Thanx, walto.