[cups.general] Unable to set page-limit
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Tue Nov 6 09:14:42 PST 2007
Jabka Atu wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On my configuration i wish that only two user could print and each one
> could print upto 20 pages a day.
>
> i went to admin and set the allowed users for a printer (and wrote
> them as "foo1 foo2")
>
> went to the console to use lpadmin:
>
> #lpadmin -p printer -o job-quota-period=6004800 -o job-page-limit= 20
>
> but when i tested that setting (by printing 40 pages ) it still printed.
First, CUPS quotas allow a single job to go over the limit. The
second job should not print. If you need tighter controls, look at
third-party solutions like Pykota which provide greater control than
the basic CUPS functionality.
Second, 1 day is 86400 seconds, not 6004800 (which is 69.5 days... :)
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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