Track number of pages users print in a month

[Helge Blischke]

Cody T.  Belcher wrote:

>> I need to know if anyone knows of a good script to run once a month via
>> cron that will out put a list of users and how many pages they print? I
>> have 5 printers, and a few hundred users. We are trying to watch for
>> people printing excessive amounts, but not with a user quota because
>> sometimes a professor will need to print a large number of pages before
>> class, and need to let them do that while see who is, so if an undergrad
>> or grad student prints way to much we can find out what they were
>> printing and decide what to do from there.
>>
>> Thanks for any and all help
> 
> I forgot to mention that I tried PrintAnalyzer
> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/printanalyze/) It always gave me an
> error for every print job in the log file, it's written in perl, and I
> don't know perl so I could't try to fix it, so if anyone can fix it, i
> think it has to do with a recent update to cups that change the log file
> format, please let me know

Please test the attached modified script and post any strange error messages 
you get, please.

Helge


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