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| 3 | PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS |
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| 5 | (c) 2003 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> |
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[873] | 6 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 7 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 8 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 9 | (at your option) any later version. |
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[797] | 10 | |
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[873] | 11 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 12 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 13 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 14 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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[797] | 15 | |
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[873] | 16 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 17 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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| 18 | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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| 19 | |
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[797] | 20 | ============================================================ |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | PyKota NEWS : |
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| 23 | |
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[1212] | 24 | - 1.16alpha13 : |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1 |
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| 27 | |
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[1215] | 28 | - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed. |
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[1220] | 29 | |
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| 30 | - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend, |
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| 31 | you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to |
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| 32 | be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions, |
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| 33 | this is not the case anymore. |
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[1212] | 34 | |
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[1203] | 35 | - 1.16alpha12 : |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct |
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| 38 | if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the |
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| 39 | history is not reset : the history would have given a false |
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| 40 | amount of money charged before the printer's prices were |
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| 41 | modified, this addition solves the problem. |
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| 42 | |
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[1200] | 43 | - 1.16alpha11 : |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for |
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| 46 | PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL |
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| 47 | database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support |
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| 48 | eq, pres and sub indexes. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | - Job history now contains additional informations : |
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| 51 | number of copies, filename, title and print options. |
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| 52 | |
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[1194] | 53 | - 1.16alpha10 : |
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[1196] | 54 | |
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| 55 | - Some modifications done to external policy handling. |
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| 56 | See sample configuration file for details. |
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[1194] | 57 | |
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| 58 | - Spanish translation added. |
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| 59 | |
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[1192] | 60 | - 1.16alpha9 : |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above |
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| 63 | quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup). |
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| 64 | Several parameters are available, see sample configuration |
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| 65 | file for details. |
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| 66 | |
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[1189] | 67 | - 1.16alpha8 : |
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| 68 | |
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[1191] | 69 | - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original |
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| 70 | backend when the user deletes a job being processed. |
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| 71 | |
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[1189] | 72 | - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the |
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| 73 | GNU GPL too. |
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| 74 | |
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[1185] | 75 | - 1.16alpha7 : |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems). |
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| 78 | |
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| 79 | - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS |
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| 80 | is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be |
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| 81 | used with LPRng though. |
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| 82 | |
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[1179] | 83 | - 1.16alpha6 : |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer |
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| 86 | with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was |
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| 87 | added to the database. |
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| 88 | |
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[1178] | 89 | - 1.16alpha5 : |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration ! |
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| 92 | This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to |
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| 93 | be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface. |
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| 94 | |
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[1177] | 95 | - 1.16alpha4 : |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | - New CUPS backend added. |
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| 98 | |
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[1175] | 99 | - 1.16alpha3 : |
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| 100 | |
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| 101 | - Minimal FAQ document added. |
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| 102 | |
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[1172] | 103 | - 1.16alpha2 : |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference |
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| 106 | |
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[1170] | 107 | - 1.16alpha1 : |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end. |
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| 110 | |
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| 111 | - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure. |
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| 112 | |
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[1168] | 113 | - 1.15 : |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | - Documentation improved. |
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| 116 | |
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[1156] | 117 | - 1.15beta : |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | - Command line tools now accept multiple printer |
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| 120 | names or wildcards, separated with commas. |
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| 121 | |
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[1152] | 122 | - 1.15alpha9 : |
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| 123 | |
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| 124 | - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users |
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| 125 | and any other interesting things you may want to do. |
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| 126 | WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now. |
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| 127 | They have to be created manually before. |
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| 128 | Look at sample configuration file for examples. |
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| 129 | |
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[1149] | 130 | - 1.15alpha8 : |
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| 131 | |
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| 132 | - Job history can be disabled if needed. |
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| 133 | This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP |
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| 134 | backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of |
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| 135 | control. |
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| 136 | |
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[1138] | 137 | - 1.15alpha7 : |
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| 138 | |
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| 139 | - More work done on caching wrt groups. |
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| 140 | |
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[1135] | 141 | - 1.15alpha6 : |
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| 142 | |
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| 143 | - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved. |
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| 144 | |
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[1130] | 145 | - 1.15alpha5 : |
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| 146 | |
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| 147 | - Caching mechanism for all database queries. |
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| 148 | |
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[1123] | 149 | - 1.15alpha4 : |
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| 150 | |
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| 151 | - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive |
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| 152 | modification. |
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| 153 | |
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[1121] | 154 | - 1.15alpha3 : |
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| 155 | |
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| 156 | - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the |
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| 157 | REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows |
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| 158 | people to protect its use with .htaccess files. |
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| 159 | When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then |
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| 160 | unrestricted access is granted. |
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[1122] | 161 | NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server |
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| 162 | (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed. |
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[1121] | 163 | |
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[1116] | 164 | - 1.15alpha2 : |
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| 165 | |
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| 166 | - Better detection of LPRng. |
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| 167 | |
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| 168 | - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown. |
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| 169 | |
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[1115] | 170 | - 1.15alpha1 : |
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| 171 | |
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| 172 | - Bug fix in SQL code. |
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| 173 | |
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[1113] | 174 | - 1.14 : |
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| 175 | |
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| 176 | - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before |
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| 177 | exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer |
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| 178 | from the problem anyway, AFAICT. |
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| 179 | |
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[1111] | 180 | - 1.14beta2 : |
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| 181 | |
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| 182 | - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail. |
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| 183 | Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email |
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| 184 | address for the user. See sample configuration file for |
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| 185 | details. |
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| 186 | |
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[1105] | 187 | - 1.14beta : |
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| 188 | |
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| 189 | - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced, |
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| 190 | newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add |
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| 191 | quota information to existing entries or elsewhere. |
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| 192 | See sample configuration file for details. |
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| 193 | |
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[1099] | 194 | - 1.14alpha9 : |
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| 195 | |
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| 196 | - Documentation improved. |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value |
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| 199 | if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his |
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| 200 | limiting factor is "balance". |
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| 201 | |
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[1095] | 202 | - 1.14alpha8 : |
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| 203 | |
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| 204 | - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for |
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| 205 | SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before |
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| 206 | asking for their internal page counter. |
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| 207 | See sample configuration file for details. |
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| 208 | |
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[1089] | 209 | - 1.14alpha7 : |
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| 210 | |
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| 211 | - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above |
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| 212 | quota. The check is only done at print time. This |
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| 213 | prevents the sending of email messages when creating |
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| 214 | user quotas if quota is already reached at creation |
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| 215 | time. |
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| 216 | |
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[1087] | 217 | - 1.14alpha6 : |
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| 218 | |
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| 219 | - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf |
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| 220 | and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to |
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| 221 | have Read/Write access to the Quota Database. |
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| 222 | Don't forget to : |
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| 223 | |
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| 224 | $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf |
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| 225 | |
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| 226 | - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced |
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| 227 | for the same reason. |
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| 228 | |
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| 229 | - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses |
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| 230 | support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends. |
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| 231 | |
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[1085] | 232 | - 1.14alpha5 : |
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| 233 | |
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| 234 | - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer |
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| 235 | |
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[1082] | 236 | - 1.14alpha4 : |
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| 237 | |
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| 238 | - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance |
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| 239 | are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added |
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| 240 | as two different LDAP entries. |
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| 241 | |
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[1079] | 242 | - 1.14alpha3 : |
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| 243 | |
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| 244 | - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script |
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| 245 | is included in initscripts/postgresql. |
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| 246 | |
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[1078] | 247 | - 1.14alpha2 : |
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| 248 | |
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| 249 | - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota |
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| 250 | |
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[1077] | 251 | - 1.14alpha1 : |
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| 252 | |
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| 253 | - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account |
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| 254 | balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent |
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| 255 | a warning message. |
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| 256 | |
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| 257 | - All warning messages to users are now configurable. |
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| 258 | NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not. |
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| 259 | |
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[1068] | 260 | - 1.13 : |
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| 261 | |
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[1072] | 262 | - Some small fixes wrt group handling. |
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| 263 | |
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[1068] | 264 | - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and |
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| 265 | several small code inconsistencies were fixed, |
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| 266 | as well as a bug in the groups code. |
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| 267 | |
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[1067] | 268 | - 1.13alpha1 : |
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| 269 | |
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| 270 | - Bug fix wrt LDAP. |
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| 271 | |
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[1065] | 272 | - 1.12 : |
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| 273 | |
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| 274 | - More complete test added in edpykota. |
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| 275 | |
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[1062] | 276 | - 1.12alpha2 : |
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| 277 | |
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| 278 | - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected. |
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| 279 | |
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[1061] | 280 | - 1.12alpha1 : |
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| 281 | |
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| 282 | - Small bug fix. |
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| 283 | |
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[1057] | 284 | - 1.11 : |
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| 285 | |
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| 286 | - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce |
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| 287 | printing quotes for users. |
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| 288 | |
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[1056] | 289 | - 1.10 : |
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| 290 | |
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| 291 | - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by |
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| 292 | account balance. |
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| 293 | |
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[1052] | 294 | - 1.09 : |
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| 295 | |
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| 296 | - Translations finalized. |
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| 297 | |
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| 298 | - Manpages updated. |
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| 299 | |
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| 300 | - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support. |
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| 301 | |
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[1049] | 302 | - 1.09beta2 : |
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| 303 | |
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| 304 | - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and |
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| 305 | is much more powerful. |
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| 306 | |
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[1043] | 307 | - 1.09beta : |
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| 308 | |
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| 309 | - edpykota finalized |
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| 310 | |
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[1041] | 311 | - 1.09alpha2 : |
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| 312 | |
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| 313 | - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade. |
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| 314 | |
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| 315 | - LDAP backend works ! |
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| 316 | |
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| 317 | - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass |
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| 318 | users or groups names on the command line. Users |
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| 319 | and groups names may contain wildcards. |
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| 320 | |
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| 321 | - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the |
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| 322 | current user when launched by non-root users. |
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| 323 | |
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| 324 | - Minor bug fixes. |
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| 325 | |
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[1029] | 326 | - 1.09alpha1 : |
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| 327 | |
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| 328 | - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options |
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| 329 | were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some |
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| 330 | hints to the LDAP storage backend. |
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[1044] | 331 | |
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| 332 | - Severe database access optimizations were done by |
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| 333 | rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers. |
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[1029] | 334 | |
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[1027] | 335 | - 1.08 : |
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| 336 | |
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| 337 | - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs. |
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[1029] | 338 | |
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[1027] | 339 | - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances. |
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| 340 | |
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[1021] | 341 | - 1.08alpha8 : |
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| 342 | |
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| 343 | - Code refactoring. |
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[1029] | 344 | |
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[1021] | 345 | - A single user/password pair is used to connect |
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| 346 | to the database backend. The storageuser configuration |
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| 347 | field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are |
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| 348 | not used anymore. |
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[1029] | 349 | |
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[1022] | 350 | - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration |
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| 351 | file for details. |
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| 352 | WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in |
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| 353 | debug mode, for now. |
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[1021] | 354 | |
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[1019] | 355 | - 1.08alpha7 : |
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| 356 | |
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| 357 | - Very latest LDAP schema. |
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[1029] | 358 | |
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[1019] | 359 | - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes |
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| 360 | and object classes into an existing LDAP directory. |
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| 361 | |
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[1017] | 362 | - 1.08alpha6 : |
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| 363 | |
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| 364 | - Minor bug corrections |
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[1029] | 365 | |
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[1017] | 366 | - More work on LDAP : new schema |
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| 367 | |
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[1016] | 368 | - 1.08alpha5 : |
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| 369 | |
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[1017] | 370 | - More good work on LDAP storage. |
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| 371 | repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory. |
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[1016] | 372 | |
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[1014] | 373 | - 1.08alpha4 : |
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| 374 | |
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| 375 | - LDAP schema included. |
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| 376 | THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS. |
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| 377 | LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA |
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| 378 | MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US |
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| 379 | WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE |
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| 380 | MAILING LIST. |
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| 381 | |
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[1000] | 382 | - 1.08alpha3 : |
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| 383 | |
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| 384 | - External accounting methods were partly rewritten : |
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| 385 | |
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| 386 | - No more "broken pipe" should happen. |
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| 387 | |
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| 388 | - They now take care of the number of copies |
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| 389 | This may be unneeded though, if the postscript |
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| 390 | file already does this, because this would |
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| 391 | overcharge users (number of copies counted |
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| 392 | two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING. |
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| 393 | |
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| 394 | - The sample configuration file now contains |
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| 395 | an external accounting method example which should |
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| 396 | work with all DSC compliant Postscript files. |
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| 397 | |
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| 398 | - Some small bugs were fixed. |
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| 399 | |
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[998] | 400 | - 1.08alpha2 : |
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| 401 | |
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| 402 | - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above. |
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| 403 | It already worked, but the sample configuration |
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[1000] | 404 | file didn't contain appropriate values... |
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[998] | 405 | |
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[991] | 406 | - 1.07 : Release of the Shame ! |
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| 407 | |
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| 408 | - The external accounting methods driver was left out of |
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| 409 | the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included ! |
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| 410 | |
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[989] | 411 | - 1.06 : |
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| 412 | |
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| 413 | - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in |
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| 414 | power saving state which couldn't answer immediately, |
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| 415 | a bug was triggered. |
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| 416 | It was caused by a bad copy/paste which |
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| 417 | forgot to import a Python module at run time. |
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| 418 | |
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[980] | 419 | - 1.05 : |
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| 420 | |
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| 421 | - External accounters are finally available ! |
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| 422 | This means that you can plug any page accounting |
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| 423 | method you like by setting the appropriate |
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| 424 | 'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf |
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| 425 | See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to |
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| 426 | learn how to do. |
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| 427 | |
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| 428 | NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods |
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| 429 | account a job size just before *this* job is |
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| 430 | sent to the printer. |
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| 431 | The original 'querying' method accounts a job |
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| 432 | size just before *the next* job is sent to |
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| 433 | the printer. |
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| 434 | |
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[976] | 435 | - 1.05alpha3 : |
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| 436 | |
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| 437 | - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was |
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| 438 | implemented to serve as an example on how to |
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| 439 | do this sort of things. This method only counts |
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| 440 | the 'showpage' statements in the input data. |
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| 441 | See sample configuration file for details. |
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| 442 | Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise |
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| 443 | you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE. |
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| 444 | It is not reliable enough to be used. |
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[978] | 445 | Use the 'querying' accounting method instead. |
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[976] | 446 | |
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[973] | 447 | - 1.05alpha2 : |
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| 448 | |
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| 449 | - Pluggable accounting methods. |
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| 450 | |
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[975] | 451 | - Better error handling. |
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| 452 | |
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[962] | 453 | - 1.05alpha1 : |
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| 454 | |
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[969] | 455 | - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security. |
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| 456 | |
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[962] | 457 | - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now |
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| 458 | tried several times, waiting several seconds between |
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| 459 | two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers |
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| 460 | which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple |
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| 461 | LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too) |
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| 462 | |
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[970] | 463 | - Small display bug fixed in repykota |
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| 464 | |
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[960] | 465 | - 1.04 : |
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[956] | 466 | |
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| 467 | - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from |
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| 468 | the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW, |
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| 469 | since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results |
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| 470 | (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons) |
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| 471 | |
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[954] | 472 | - LPRng support works ! |
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| 473 | |
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[953] | 474 | - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default |
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| 475 | policy for unknown users. It is now corrected. |
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| 476 | |
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[950] | 477 | - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each |
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| 478 | printer, if they are defined. |
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| 479 | |
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[947] | 480 | - Minor display bug fixed in repykota. |
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| 481 | |
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| 482 | - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed. |
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| 483 | |
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[942] | 484 | - 1.03 : |
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| 485 | |
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| 486 | - Upgrade script included for earlier versions. |
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| 487 | Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory. |
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[965] | 488 | THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE. |
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[942] | 489 | |
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[932] | 490 | - repykota now reports account balances too. |
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[929] | 491 | |
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[932] | 492 | - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos |
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| 493 | subdirectory. |
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| 494 | |
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[936] | 495 | - Manual pages were finally updated. |
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| 496 | |
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[927] | 497 | - Group quotas seem to work now ! |
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| 498 | |
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[910] | 499 | - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all |
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| 500 | jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job, |
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| 501 | and track users' account balance. |
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| 502 | |
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[917] | 503 | - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to |
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| 504 | use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for |
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| 505 | details. |
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| 506 | |
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[885] | 507 | - The installation script now allows to install the sample |
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| 508 | configuration file during first installation. |
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[892] | 509 | |
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| 510 | - More group quota code works, but still not finished. |
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[885] | 511 | |
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[894] | 512 | - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website. |
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| 513 | |
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[899] | 514 | - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period |
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| 515 | reports in the future. |
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[900] | 516 | |
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| 517 | - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota, |
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| 518 | a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about |
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| 519 | a quota which is too low to print. |
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| 520 | |
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[901] | 521 | - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal |
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| 522 | page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so |
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| 523 | if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter |
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| 524 | may be lower than the real number of pages printed. |
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| 525 | See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html |
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[909] | 526 | We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to |
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| 527 | abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2)) |
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| 528 | in this case. |
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[908] | 529 | For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers |
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| 530 | off. |
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[901] | 531 | |
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| 532 | - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile |
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| 533 | page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on) |
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[908] | 534 | This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet |
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| 535 | 4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing. |
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[901] | 536 | See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html |
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[908] | 537 | For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers |
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[925] | 538 | off. This is untested, please report any problem. |
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[901] | 539 | |
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[907] | 540 | - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already |
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| 541 | had a quota on the specified printer. |
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| 542 | |
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[913] | 543 | - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary |
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| 544 | 1.03 versions, and fixed later on. |
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[915] | 545 | |
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| 546 | - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed. |
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[913] | 547 | |
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[919] | 548 | - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration |
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| 549 | file for details. |
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[925] | 550 | |
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| 551 | - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by |
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| 552 | print quota or by account balance. |
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[919] | 553 | |
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[877] | 554 | - 1.02 : |
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[859] | 555 | |
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[871] | 556 | - The installation script now checks for software availability |
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| 557 | and in case a software is missing asks the user if he |
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| 558 | wants to continue with the installation or abort it. |
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| 559 | |
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[872] | 560 | - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be |
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| 561 | found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups |
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| 562 | The installation script prompts the user to see if he |
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| 563 | wants to move an old configuration file to the new location |
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| 564 | if needed. |
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| 565 | |
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[859] | 566 | - Improved documentation. |
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| 567 | |
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| 568 | - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage |
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| 569 | Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details. |
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| 570 | |
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[872] | 571 | - Better general error handling. |
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[859] | 572 | |
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[875] | 573 | - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now |
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| 574 | included as well. |
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| 575 | |
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[852] | 576 | - 1.01 : |
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| 577 | |
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| 578 | - The configuration file now accepts an option |
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| 579 | to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages : |
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| 580 | |
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| 581 | - DevNull means no one will receive them. |
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| 582 | - User means only the user will receive them. |
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| 583 | - Admin means only the admin will receive them. |
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| 584 | - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them. |
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| 585 | |
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[853] | 586 | - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values |
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| 587 | when an option is not set. See sample configuration file |
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| 588 | for details. |
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| 589 | |
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[852] | 590 | - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to |
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| 591 | add this information to this file. |
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| 592 | |
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[855] | 593 | - Redistribution terms for the official package have |
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| 594 | softened and are now fully GPL compatible : |
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| 595 | unrestricted modification is now allowed even for |
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| 596 | the version number. |
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| 597 | |
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[846] | 598 | - 1.00 : |
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| 599 | |
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| 600 | - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This |
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| 601 | disable quota checking while still doing page |
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| 602 | accounting. This is really useful for people |
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| 603 | who don't want to limit their users but want |
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| 604 | to know how much pages they print. |
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| 605 | |
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| 606 | - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve |
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| 607 | the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers. |
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| 608 | |
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| 609 | - Every directory now has a specific README file. |
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| 610 | |
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[833] | 611 | - 0.99 : |
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| 612 | |
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| 613 | - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed |
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| 614 | to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is |
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| 615 | now fixed. |
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| 616 | |
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| 617 | - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for |
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[835] | 618 | the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed. |
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[833] | 619 | |
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[827] | 620 | - 0.98 : |
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| 621 | |
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| 622 | - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off. |
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| 623 | |
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[828] | 624 | - Small bug wrt syslog fixed. |
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| 625 | |
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[819] | 626 | - 0.97 : |
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| 627 | |
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| 628 | - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too |
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| 629 | if the --add option is not set, e.g. : |
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| 630 | |
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| 631 | $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*" |
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| 632 | |
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[821] | 633 | - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*" |
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[819] | 634 | which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used. |
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| 635 | |
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| 636 | - Small bug fixes. |
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| 637 | |
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[803] | 638 | - 0.96 : |
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| 639 | |
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[808] | 640 | - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now |
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[807] | 641 | be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has |
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| 642 | priority if both are defined. |
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[803] | 643 | |
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[807] | 644 | - More powerful configuration parser. |
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| 645 | |
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| 646 | - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to |
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| 647 | define a section for each printer in the configuration |
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| 648 | file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok. |
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[803] | 649 | |
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[797] | 650 | - 0.95 : |
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| 651 | |
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[798] | 652 | - External requesters for printers finally added. |
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[797] | 653 | |
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| 654 | - Full internationalization (english and french are supported) |
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| 655 | |
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| 656 | - More complete quota usage report |
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| 657 | |
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| 658 | - CGI script to access to the quota usage report |
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| 659 | |
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| 660 | - Several bugs fixed. |
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| 661 | |
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| 662 | |
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| 663 | - 0.9 : |
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| 664 | |
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| 665 | - First public version |
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