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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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| 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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| 10 | |
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| 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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| 15 | |
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| 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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| 20 | ============================================================ |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | PyKota NEWS : |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | - 1.05 : |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | - External accounters are finally available ! |
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| 27 | This means that you can plug any page accounting |
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| 28 | method you like by setting the appropriate |
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| 29 | 'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf |
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| 30 | See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to |
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| 31 | learn how to do. |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods |
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| 34 | account a job size just before *this* job is |
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| 35 | sent to the printer. |
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| 36 | The original 'querying' method accounts a job |
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| 37 | size just before *the next* job is sent to |
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| 38 | the printer. |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | - 1.05alpha3 : |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was |
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| 43 | implemented to serve as an example on how to |
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| 44 | do this sort of things. This method only counts |
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| 45 | the 'showpage' statements in the input data. |
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| 46 | See sample configuration file for details. |
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| 47 | Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise |
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| 48 | you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE. |
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| 49 | It is not reliable enough to be used. |
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| 50 | Use the 'querying' accounting method instead. |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | - 1.05alpha2 : |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | - Pluggable accounting methods. |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | - Better error handling. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | - 1.05alpha1 : |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security. |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now |
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| 63 | tried several times, waiting several seconds between |
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| 64 | two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers |
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| 65 | which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple |
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| 66 | LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too) |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | - Small display bug fixed in repykota |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | - 1.04 : |
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| 71 | |
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| 72 | - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from |
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| 73 | the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW, |
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| 74 | since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results |
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| 75 | (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons) |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | - LPRng support works ! |
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| 78 | |
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| 79 | - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default |
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| 80 | policy for unknown users. It is now corrected. |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each |
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| 83 | printer, if they are defined. |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | - Minor display bug fixed in repykota. |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed. |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | - 1.03 : |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | - Upgrade script included for earlier versions. |
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| 92 | Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory. |
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| 93 | THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE. |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | - repykota now reports account balances too. |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos |
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| 98 | subdirectory. |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | - Manual pages were finally updated. |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | - Group quotas seem to work now ! |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all |
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| 105 | jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job, |
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| 106 | and track users' account balance. |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to |
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| 109 | use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for |
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| 110 | details. |
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| 111 | |
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| 112 | - The installation script now allows to install the sample |
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| 113 | configuration file during first installation. |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | - More group quota code works, but still not finished. |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website. |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period |
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| 120 | reports in the future. |
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| 121 | |
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| 122 | - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota, |
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| 123 | a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about |
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| 124 | a quota which is too low to print. |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal |
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| 127 | page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so |
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| 128 | if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter |
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| 129 | may be lower than the real number of pages printed. |
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| 130 | See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html |
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| 131 | We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to |
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| 132 | abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2)) |
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| 133 | in this case. |
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| 134 | For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers |
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| 135 | off. |
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| 136 | |
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| 137 | - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile |
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| 138 | page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on) |
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| 139 | This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet |
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| 140 | 4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing. |
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| 141 | See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html |
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| 142 | For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers |
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| 143 | off. This is untested, please report any problem. |
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| 144 | |
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| 145 | - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already |
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| 146 | had a quota on the specified printer. |
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| 147 | |
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| 148 | - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary |
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| 149 | 1.03 versions, and fixed later on. |
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| 150 | |
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| 151 | - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed. |
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| 152 | |
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| 153 | - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration |
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| 154 | file for details. |
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| 155 | |
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| 156 | - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by |
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| 157 | print quota or by account balance. |
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| 158 | |
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| 159 | - 1.02 : |
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| 160 | |
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| 161 | - The installation script now checks for software availability |
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| 162 | and in case a software is missing asks the user if he |
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| 163 | wants to continue with the installation or abort it. |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be |
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| 166 | found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups |
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| 167 | The installation script prompts the user to see if he |
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| 168 | wants to move an old configuration file to the new location |
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| 169 | if needed. |
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| 170 | |
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| 171 | - Improved documentation. |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 | - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage |
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| 174 | Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details. |
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| 175 | |
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| 176 | - Better general error handling. |
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| 177 | |
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| 178 | - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now |
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| 179 | included as well. |
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| 180 | |
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| 181 | - 1.01 : |
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| 182 | |
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| 183 | - The configuration file now accepts an option |
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| 184 | to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages : |
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| 185 | |
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| 186 | - DevNull means no one will receive them. |
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| 187 | - User means only the user will receive them. |
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| 188 | - Admin means only the admin will receive them. |
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| 189 | - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them. |
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| 190 | |
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| 191 | - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values |
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| 192 | when an option is not set. See sample configuration file |
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| 193 | for details. |
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| 194 | |
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| 195 | - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to |
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| 196 | add this information to this file. |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | - Redistribution terms for the official package have |
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| 199 | softened and are now fully GPL compatible : |
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| 200 | unrestricted modification is now allowed even for |
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| 201 | the version number. |
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| 202 | |
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| 203 | - 1.00 : |
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| 204 | |
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| 205 | - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This |
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| 206 | disable quota checking while still doing page |
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| 207 | accounting. This is really useful for people |
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| 208 | who don't want to limit their users but want |
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| 209 | to know how much pages they print. |
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| 210 | |
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| 211 | - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve |
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| 212 | the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers. |
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| 213 | |
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| 214 | - Every directory now has a specific README file. |
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| 215 | |
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| 216 | - 0.99 : |
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| 217 | |
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| 218 | - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed |
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| 219 | to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is |
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| 220 | now fixed. |
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| 221 | |
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| 222 | - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for |
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| 223 | the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed. |
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| 224 | |
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| 225 | - 0.98 : |
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| 226 | |
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| 227 | - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off. |
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| 228 | |
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| 229 | - Small bug wrt syslog fixed. |
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| 230 | |
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| 231 | - 0.97 : |
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| 232 | |
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| 233 | - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too |
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| 234 | if the --add option is not set, e.g. : |
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| 235 | |
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| 236 | $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*" |
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| 237 | |
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| 238 | - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*" |
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| 239 | which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used. |
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| 240 | |
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| 241 | - Small bug fixes. |
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| 242 | |
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| 243 | - 0.96 : |
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| 244 | |
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| 245 | - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now |
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| 246 | be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has |
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| 247 | priority if both are defined. |
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| 248 | |
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| 249 | - More powerful configuration parser. |
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| 250 | |
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| 251 | - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to |
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| 252 | define a section for each printer in the configuration |
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| 253 | file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok. |
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| 254 | |
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| 255 | - 0.95 : |
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| 256 | |
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| 257 | - External requesters for printers finally added. |
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| 258 | |
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| 259 | - Full internationalization (english and french are supported) |
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| 260 | |
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| 261 | - More complete quota usage report |
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| 262 | |
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| 263 | - CGI script to access to the quota usage report |
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| 264 | |
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| 265 | - Several bugs fixed. |
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| 266 | |
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| 267 | |
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| 268 | - 0.9 : |
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| 269 | |
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| 270 | - First public version |
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