[cups.general] Unable to set page-limit

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Nov 7 09:36:19 PST 2007


Jabka Atu wrote:
> The starnge thing is that i even set the page limit to 1 and still i
> wase able to print and print and print ...

Hmm, what driver are you using?

> 
> On Nov 6, 2007 7:14 PM, Michael R Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>> 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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