[695] | 1 | # $Id$ |
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[3375] | 3 | --- TEST --- |
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[3259] | 5 | PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS |
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[695] | 6 | |
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[3279] | 7 | (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> |
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[3259] | 8 | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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[873] | 9 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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[3259] | 10 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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[873] | 11 | (at your option) any later version. |
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[695] | 12 | |
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[873] | 13 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 14 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 15 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 16 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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[695] | 17 | |
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[873] | 18 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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[3259] | 19 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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[873] | 20 | |
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[761] | 21 | ==================================================================== |
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[695] | 22 | |
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[1052] | 23 | READ SPECIAL LICENSING AND REDISTRIBUTION TERMS IN THE FILE 'LICENSE' |
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[761] | 24 | |
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| 25 | ==================================================================== |
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| 26 | |
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[1154] | 27 | PyKota features : |
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| 28 | ----------------- |
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[695] | 29 | |
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[3038] | 30 | http://www.pykota.com/software/pykota/features/ |
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[2638] | 31 | |
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[1154] | 32 | ==================================================================== |
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[739] | 34 | Planned features are described in the TODO file. |
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| 35 | |
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[3104] | 36 | Actually three (or an infinity of) page accounting methods are |
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[980] | 37 | implemented : |
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[695] | 38 | |
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[1475] | 39 | - The 'hardware' method consists in querying the printer (via SNMP |
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[3104] | 40 | or Netatalk or any other method of your choice) for its internal |
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| 41 | pages counter. |
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[1600] | 42 | This is done both at the beginning and at the end of a |
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[3104] | 43 | print job. The counters difference is then used to |
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[1186] | 44 | decrease the user's account balance or increase his quota usage. |
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| 45 | |
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[1475] | 46 | - The 'software' method consists in delegating the computation of the |
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[980] | 47 | job's size in number of pages to any external command of your choice. |
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| 48 | The command can read the job's data from its standard input and MUST |
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[1186] | 49 | output the job's size on its standard output. Changes to the user |
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[3104] | 50 | account are reported immediately. PyKota by default internally |
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[3282] | 51 | uses the code from pkpgcounter which can handle a large number |
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| 52 | of Page Description Languages, and can parse documents produced |
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| 53 | either by GhostScript or by a number of native printer drivers. |
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[3104] | 54 | Of course this means you have to install pkpgcounter if you want to |
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| 55 | use the default PDL parser. |
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[3282] | 56 | An up-to-date list of supported Page Description Languages and their |
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| 57 | level of support is available from : |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/ |
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[2345] | 60 | |
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[3104] | 61 | - The 'ink' method consists in using pkpgcounter's code to compute |
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| 62 | how much of each page is covered by ink in each color of a particular |
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| 63 | colorspace chosen between CMYK, CMY, RGB, and BW (grayscale). |
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| 64 | These values are then summed up together and multiplied by a set |
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| 65 | of coefficients defined in PyKota's configuration files. |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | PyKota is known to work with most printers, excepted GDI ones (Windows |
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| 68 | only). At least one of the accounting methods above should work |
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| 69 | for you. If it's not the case, please report the problem : tell us |
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| 70 | the exact brand and model of the printer, if possible the driver used, |
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| 71 | and send some test files. |
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[724] | 72 | |
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[695] | 73 | ============================================================ |
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| 74 | |
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[2001] | 75 | SUPPORT CONTRACTS: |
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| 76 | ================== |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | You can now purchase 8x5x365@NextBusinessDay Technical |
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[2126] | 79 | Support Contracts from us. The yearly fee is computed with |
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| 80 | the following formula : |
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[2001] | 81 | |
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| 82 | (100.0 * NbPrintServers) + (2.5 * NbPrinters) + (0.04 * NbUsers) EUROS. |
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| 83 | |
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[2542] | 84 | This fee includes the VAT, and a free subscription to Official |
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| 85 | PyKota packages. |
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[2001] | 86 | |
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| 87 | Please send an email to alet@librelogiciel.com if you're |
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[2126] | 88 | interested in purchasing such a contract. |
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[2001] | 89 | |
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[2126] | 90 | Remember that purchasing a support contract for Free Software like PyKota |
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| 91 | is a great way to show your appreciation for the work already being done |
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| 92 | on this project, and will help to improve this software in the future. |
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| 93 | |
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[2001] | 94 | ============================================================ |
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| 95 | |
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[695] | 96 | INSTALLATION: |
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| 97 | ============= |
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| 98 | |
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[1186] | 99 | NB : |
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| 100 | ==== |
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[887] | 101 | |
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[2714] | 102 | PyKota's documentation is available as DocBook SGML sources |
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| 103 | files in the pykota/docs directory. If you obtained an |
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| 104 | Official package, in the same directory you'll also find |
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[3104] | 105 | the documentation in HTML and PDF formats. Otherwise you |
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| 106 | have to compile it into HTML or PDF yourself by using |
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| 107 | the appropriate tools as installed on your system. |
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[2543] | 108 | |
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[2714] | 109 | PyKota's collaborative documentation is available from : |
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| 110 | |
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[2909] | 111 | http://www.pykota.com/wiki/ |
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[2543] | 112 | |
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[1397] | 113 | You may learn more about PyKota, if it fits your own organization, |
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| 114 | its internal working, and some potential performance drawbacks and |
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[2054] | 115 | how to avoid them, in a document created by Ryan Suarez at : |
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[1397] | 116 | |
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[2005] | 117 | http://archive.macosxlabs.org/forum/webcrossing_archive/documentation/Pykota_and_CUPS/Pykota_and_CUPS.html |
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[1034] | 118 | |
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[1651] | 119 | You may also find the following document interesting : |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | http://es.tldp.org/Tutoriales/doc-openldap-samba-cups-python/ |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | This document, written in Spanish by Sergio Gonzalez Gonzalez, |
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| 124 | describes the integration of PyKota into an OpenLDAP + Samba |
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| 125 | + CUPS installation. Even for people who can't read spanish |
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| 126 | this document is really interesting, and contains lots of |
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| 127 | screenshots. |
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| 128 | |
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[1951] | 129 | |
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[714] | 130 | Prerequisite : |
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| 131 | -------------- |
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| 132 | |
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[2714] | 133 | See : |
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[2909] | 135 | http://www.pykota.com/wiki/Dependencies |
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[2714] | 136 | |
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| 137 | for an up-to-date list, or see below (maybe not up-to-date) : |
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| 138 | |
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[714] | 139 | You need to have the following tools installed on the CUPS Server : |
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| 140 | |
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[3282] | 141 | - CUPS (http://www.cups.org). PyKota v1.27 requires CUPS v1.3.4 or higher. |
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[3201] | 142 | - Python v2.3 or higher (http://www.python.org) |
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[1886] | 143 | - eGenix' mxDateTime Python extension (http://www.egenix.com) |
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[2345] | 144 | - The pkpgcounter command line tool, version 1.56 or higher. This |
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| 145 | tool is now mandatory for PyKota to work. |
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[2909] | 146 | (http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter) |
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[2891] | 147 | - The pkipplib Python library (http://www.pykota.com/software/pkipplib) |
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[1771] | 148 | - The JAXML Python module to be able to dump datas in the XML format. |
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[1886] | 149 | (http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/) |
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[2784] | 150 | - The Python-PAM module if you need the pknotify command to be able |
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[3006] | 151 | to check usernames and passwords. (http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM) |
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[1771] | 152 | - The Python-SNMP module to query printers for their page counter. |
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[3006] | 153 | (http://pysnmp.sourceforge.net) |
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[2877] | 154 | IMPORTANT : version 3.4.2 or higher is REQUIRED. |
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| 155 | Versions 2.x won't work. Versions 4.x now work (tested with v4.1.5a). |
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[1771] | 156 | - The Python-OSD module to use the graphical print quota reminder. |
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[2189] | 157 | (http://repose.cx/pyosd/) |
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[1771] | 158 | - SNMP tools (specifically the snmpget command) if you prefer to |
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[3287] | 159 | use your own script to request query printers instead of PyKota's |
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| 160 | internal SNMP handling facilities, which is not recommanded... |
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[2189] | 161 | (http://www.net-snmp.org) |
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[919] | 162 | - Netatalk (specifically the pap command) if you plan to |
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| 163 | request your printer's lifetime page counter via AppleTalk. |
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[1886] | 164 | (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net) |
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[1927] | 165 | - The ReportLab Python module (http://www.reportlab.org) if you want |
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| 166 | to have PyKota generate nice banners for you. |
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| 167 | - The Python Imaging Library (aka PIL) module |
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| 168 | (http://www.pythonware.com/downloads) if you want to have PyKota |
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| 169 | generate nice banners for you. |
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[1043] | 170 | - PostgreSQL's PygreSQL Python extension and the PostgreSQL client |
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[2597] | 171 | libraries if you plan to use PostgreSQL as the database backend. |
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[1886] | 172 | (http://www.postgresql.org and http://www.pygreql.org) |
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[1043] | 173 | or |
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| 174 | - python-ldap Python module and the OpenLDAP client libraries |
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[2597] | 175 | if you plan to use an LDAP server as the database backend. |
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[1886] | 176 | (http://www.openldap.org and http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net) |
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[2597] | 177 | or |
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| 178 | - SQLite v3.2.7 and the SQLite libraries if you plan to use SQLite |
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| 179 | as the database backend (http://www.sqlite.org). You also need the |
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| 180 | PySQLite module v2.0.5 or higher (http://www.pysqlite.org) |
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[2638] | 181 | or |
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[2714] | 182 | - The MySQL-python bindings. |
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[2638] | 183 | IMPORTANT: If you are using MySQL 4.1, then MySQL-python must be |
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| 184 | version 1.2 or greater. Version 1.0 does not work correctly with 4.1. |
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[2597] | 185 | |
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[714] | 186 | |
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[1771] | 187 | On Intel i386 architecture, and for performance reasons, it is |
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| 188 | strongly suggested that you install the Python accelerator Psyco, |
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| 189 | available at : |
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[1570] | 190 | |
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| 191 | http://psyco.sourceforge.net |
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| 192 | |
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[1571] | 193 | Under Debian : |
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| 195 | $ apt-get install python-psyco |
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| 197 | Other architectures may be supported as well in the future, check |
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[1600] | 198 | this on Psyco's website. |
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[1571] | 199 | |
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[1578] | 200 | Installing Psyco is not mandatory, but it will speedup PCL5 parsing |
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[1570] | 201 | by almost 3 times. PostScript and PDF parsing can also benefit, |
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| 202 | but in an almost unnoticeable manner since this part of the code |
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[1575] | 203 | is already optimal. For PCL5 this is a completely different matter, |
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[1570] | 204 | and if you install Psyco you will never regret it ! |
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[1600] | 205 | Same remark applies for PCL6 (aka PCLXL) : the parser is completely |
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| 206 | different, but the performance gain with Psyco is impressive. |
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[1570] | 207 | |
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[1186] | 208 | You may also benefit from having the following tools installed to |
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| 209 | deal with some printers : |
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| 210 | |
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| 211 | - npadmin |
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| 212 | - netcat |
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| 213 | - ghostscript |
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| 214 | |
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[2597] | 215 | You need to have the following tools installed on the database |
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| 216 | server : |
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[714] | 217 | |
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[1886] | 218 | - PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) |
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[714] | 219 | |
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[1043] | 220 | or |
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| 221 | |
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[1886] | 222 | - OpenLDAP, or any other LDAP server (http://www.openldap.org) |
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[1043] | 223 | |
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[2597] | 224 | or |
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| 225 | |
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| 226 | - SQLite, v3.2.7 or higher (http://www.sqlite.org). |
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| 227 | Beware : with SQLite the database server and the print |
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| 228 | servers MUST be the very same machine. |
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[2714] | 229 | |
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| 230 | or |
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[714] | 231 | |
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[3104] | 232 | - MySQL 4.1 or higher. 5.x is recommended. |
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[2714] | 233 | |
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[714] | 234 | This list of prerequisite software may change in the future, when |
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| 235 | PyKota will support more functionnalities you will be given |
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| 236 | alternatives. |
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| 237 | |
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[2597] | 238 | Of course the Print Server and the database server can be the |
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[851] | 239 | very same machine if you've got a tiny network, or you can have |
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[2597] | 240 | multiple Print Servers all storing their quotas on the same database |
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| 241 | server if you've got a bigger network. (NB : with SQLite, the database |
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| 242 | can't be shared between several print servers) |
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[851] | 243 | |
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[1886] | 244 | Hint : |
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| 245 | ------ |
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| 246 | |
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| 247 | - The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is to our knowledge the |
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[3081] | 248 | easiest distribution to install PyKota on, because almost all |
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[1886] | 249 | of PyKota dependencies are already included, excepted |
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[3081] | 250 | the pkpgcounter utility which for now have to be downloaded |
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[3104] | 251 | and installed separately, and maybe one or two other dependencies, |
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| 252 | depending on the version of Debian you are using. |
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| 253 | We recommend you to use Debian's Etch distribution or |
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| 254 | more recent. PyKota works fine on Sarge, but some additional |
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| 255 | dependencies are missing in Sarge and have to be installed |
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| 256 | manually. |
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[1886] | 257 | |
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[714] | 258 | Then : |
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| 259 | ------ |
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| 260 | |
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[2135] | 261 | Download the latest PyKota version from the Subversion tree : |
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[695] | 262 | |
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[2135] | 263 | $ svn co svn://svn.librelogiciel.com/pykota/trunk pykota |
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[695] | 264 | |
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[1906] | 265 | You can now check if the dependencies are correct by typing : |
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[695] | 266 | |
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[2135] | 267 | $ python checkdeps.py |
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[1906] | 268 | |
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[2234] | 269 | An availability report for all the software needed by PyKota |
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| 270 | will be displayed : you'll have to install the missing |
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| 271 | software if you want PyKota to work correctly. |
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| 272 | |
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[1906] | 273 | To install the software, just type : |
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| 274 | |
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[2135] | 275 | $ python setup.py install |
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[695] | 276 | |
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| 277 | You may need to be logged in with sufficient privileges (e.g. root) |
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| 278 | |
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[3081] | 279 | If you use Debian or Ubuntu, and want to use PostgreSQL as the |
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| 280 | database backend, just type : |
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| 281 | |
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[3201] | 282 | $ pksetup debian |
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[3081] | 283 | |
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[3201] | 284 | or : |
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| 285 | |
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| 286 | $ pksetup ubuntu |
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| 287 | |
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[3081] | 288 | and follow the instructions to install PyKota in interactive mode, then |
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| 289 | skip the remaining of the section below. |
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| 290 | |
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| 291 | Otherwise, you have to setup manually : |
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| 292 | |
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[1960] | 293 | Create a system user for PyKota : |
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| 294 | |
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[2135] | 295 | $ adduser --system --group --home /etc/pykota --gecos PyKota pykota |
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[1960] | 296 | |
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| 297 | Put the user your printing system is run as in the pykota system group : |
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| 298 | |
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[2135] | 299 | $ adduser lp pykota |
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[1960] | 300 | |
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| 301 | NB : on our system, the CUPS printing system runs as system user 'lp'. |
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| 302 | Please adapt this to your own system. |
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| 303 | |
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[3104] | 304 | Go to the initscripts/ subdirectory of PyKota's sources, and choose |
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[1600] | 305 | the appropriate storage backend for your configuration. Read carefully |
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[3104] | 306 | the associated README file, modify the initialization script to |
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| 307 | change the passwords, or, in the case of the LDAP backend, adapt it |
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| 308 | to your own LDAP DIT, and execute the initialization script |
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[2597] | 309 | to create an empty PyKota database. Upgrade scripts may be |
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[2269] | 310 | provided as well. NB : if you use PostgreSQL, a good way to |
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| 311 | make PyKota work first time is to modify PostgreSQL's pg_hba.conf |
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| 312 | to allow the 'trust' database connection mode. However once PyKota |
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| 313 | works it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO CHANGE THIS TO A MORE SECURE |
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[3104] | 314 | VALUE. Look at the SECURITY document, PyKota's Official documentation |
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| 315 | and PostgreSQL's documentation for details on this subject. |
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[695] | 316 | |
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[1186] | 317 | Copy the conf/pykota.conf.sample and conf/pykotadmin.conf.sample |
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[3104] | 318 | sample configuration files to ~pykota/pykota.conf and |
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| 319 | ~pykota/pykotadmin.conf |
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[1905] | 320 | The installation script usually copies these files into /usr/share/pykota |
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[1198] | 321 | |
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[1979] | 322 | NB : You can move PyKota's configuration files elsewhere, they will |
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[3104] | 323 | be searched first in user pykota's home directory, then in /etc/pykota. |
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[1979] | 324 | |
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[1905] | 325 | You need to adapt these files to your own needs. Especially you may |
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| 326 | have to create sections named after your own printers, and change |
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| 327 | the administrator's email address which by default is |
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| 328 | root@localhost. Read and try to understand these two very well |
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| 329 | commented files, so that you'll encounter less problems later. |
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| 330 | |
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[1186] | 331 | The rest of the installation depends on your printing system : |
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| 332 | |
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[1185] | 333 | - CUPS Printing System : |
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[952] | 334 | |
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[1185] | 335 | Once and for all : |
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[952] | 336 | |
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[3270] | 337 | Modify CUPS' cupsd.conf to make CUPS listen to 127.0.0.1:631 |
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| 338 | INSTEAD OF to an unix domain socket, in addition to any |
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| 339 | external network interface CUPS might already be listening to. |
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| 340 | |
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[1185] | 341 | Create a symbolic link to the cupspykota backend |
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| 342 | in CUPS's backend directory : |
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| 343 | |
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| 344 | $ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend |
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[1345] | 345 | $ ln -s /usr/share/pykota/cupspykota cupspykota |
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[1185] | 346 | |
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[2943] | 347 | If you use CUPS v1.2 or higher, please do this as well : |
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| 348 | |
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| 349 | $ chmod 700 /usr/share/pykota/cupspykota |
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| 350 | |
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| 351 | This allows the cupspykota backend to support other |
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| 352 | backends which must be run as user root, like the |
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| 353 | lpd backend for example. |
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| 354 | |
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[1185] | 355 | Restart CUPS so that the new backend can be detected. |
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| 356 | |
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| 357 | $ /etc/init.d/cupsys restart |
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| 358 | |
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[3104] | 359 | for example under Debian, or any similar command depending |
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| 360 | on your operating system of choice. |
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[1600] | 361 | |
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[1185] | 362 | For new printers : |
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[952] | 363 | |
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[1185] | 364 | Go to CUPS management interface (http://localhost:631) |
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| 365 | and choose the appropriate PyKota managed device depending |
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| 366 | on the type of printer you use. For example, if your |
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| 367 | printer is waiting on : |
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| 368 | |
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[1354] | 369 | socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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[1185] | 370 | |
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| 371 | Then choose : |
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| 372 | |
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[1354] | 373 | cupspykota:socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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[1185] | 374 | |
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| 375 | Configure your printer as usual. |
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| 376 | |
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[1186] | 377 | Now double check /etc/pykota/pykota.conf |
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[1600] | 378 | |
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| 379 | You should manually create a section named after the |
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[1402] | 380 | printer you've just added, unless you have set |
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| 381 | all options globally. |
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[1600] | 382 | |
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[2468] | 383 | The new pkturnkey command can help you with correct settings |
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[3104] | 384 | for your printers. To have pkturnkey give you some hints |
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| 385 | about what to put into pykota.conf for a particular |
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| 386 | print queue, just use its --doconf command line switch : |
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[1186] | 387 | |
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[3104] | 388 | $ pkturnkey --doconf TheNameOfThePrintQueue |
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[1600] | 389 | |
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[2468] | 390 | pkturnkey will try to tell you what is the best accounting |
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[1600] | 391 | method for each printer and will print some lines you'll |
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| 392 | just have to copy&paste in the appropriate sections in |
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| 393 | /etc/pykota/pykota.conf |
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| 394 | |
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[2468] | 395 | For more informations about what pkturnkey can do for you, |
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| 396 | see pkturnkey's manual page or use the --help command |
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| 397 | line switch : |
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| 398 | |
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| 399 | $ pkturnkey --help | less |
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[1185] | 401 | That's all. |
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[952] | 402 | |
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[3104] | 403 | For existing print queues : |
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[1185] | 404 | |
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[3104] | 405 | You want to route the print queue through PyKota, |
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| 406 | and you can do this in several manners. |
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| 407 | |
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| 408 | $ pkprinters --add --cups TheNameOfThePrintQueue |
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| 410 | or |
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| 411 | |
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| 412 | if your printer's DeviceURI is something like : |
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| 413 | |
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| 414 | socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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| 415 | |
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| 416 | then you can do this : |
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| 417 | |
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| 418 | $ pkprinters --add TheNameOfThePrintQueue |
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| 419 | $ lpadmin -p TheNameOfThePrintQueue \ |
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| 420 | -v cupspykota://socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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| 421 | |
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| 422 | Finally, you could do it manually by modifying the |
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| 423 | the DeviceURI lines in /etc/cups/printers.conf : |
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| 424 | You would have to preprend 'cupspykota://' in front |
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| 425 | of what is already on these lines. For example, replace : |
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[1185] | 426 | |
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[1354] | 427 | DeviceURI socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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[1185] | 428 | |
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| 429 | with : |
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| 430 | |
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[3104] | 431 | DeviceURI cupspykota://socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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[1345] | 432 | |
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| 433 | or : |
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[1185] | 434 | |
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[1354] | 435 | DeviceURI cupspykota://socket://myprinter.example.com:9100 |
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[1345] | 436 | |
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[3104] | 437 | Save the file and restart CUPS for the changes to take effect. |
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[1600] | 438 | |
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[2470] | 439 | Here too, you may find it interesting to use the pkturnkey command as |
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[1600] | 440 | described above to help with manual configuration of the file |
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| 441 | /etc/pykota/pykota.conf |
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[695] | 442 | |
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[1186] | 443 | Now you can begin to populate the PyKota's database with printers, |
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| 444 | users and groups : |
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[952] | 445 | |
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[716] | 446 | Add printers and users to the quota system and set their quota values : |
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[695] | 447 | |
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[2470] | 448 | You can either use pkturnkey, or do the same things manually by |
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[2714] | 449 | using the pkprinters, pkusers and edpykota command line tools : |
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[1345] | 450 | |
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[2714] | 451 | Create printers : |
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| 452 | |
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[1345] | 453 | $ pkprinters --help |
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| 454 | |
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| 455 | will tell you how to create, manage or delete printers and |
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| 456 | printers groups. |
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[1402] | 457 | |
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| 458 | $ pkprinters --add --charge 0.05 hp2100 |
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| 459 | |
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| 460 | would add the printer named hp2100 with a price per page |
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| 461 | of 0.05 unit. |
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[1345] | 462 | |
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[2714] | 463 | Create users : |
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[1402] | 464 | |
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[3104] | 465 | $ pkusers --add --limitby balance --balance 10.0 jerome |
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[1086] | 466 | |
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[2714] | 467 | would create user jerome and give him ten credits to spend |
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| 468 | on any printer. |
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[1086] | 469 | |
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[2714] | 470 | Finally create print quota entries : |
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[695] | 471 | |
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[3104] | 472 | $ edpykota --add --printer hp2100 john paul george ringo |
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[2714] | 473 | |
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[3104] | 474 | This will create print quota entries for The Beatles on |
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[2714] | 475 | printer hp2100. The print quota entry holds the number of |
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| 476 | pages printed on a particular printer for a particular |
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| 477 | user, as well as optional page limits to be used instead |
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| 478 | of balance limits. See pkusers and edpykota's manual |
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| 479 | pages for details. |
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| 480 | |
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[695] | 481 | Your users now should be able to print but not exceed their |
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| 482 | printing quota. |
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| 483 | |
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[2234] | 484 | To see printer quota usage on printer hp2100, you can use : |
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[794] | 485 | |
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[2234] | 486 | $ repykota --printer hp2100 |
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[794] | 487 | |
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| 488 | or : |
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| 489 | |
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| 490 | $ repykota |
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| 491 | |
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| 492 | which will print quota usage for all users on all printers, |
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[2054] | 493 | along with totals, if you are a PyKota Administator. If you are |
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[1107] | 494 | a regular user, only your own quota report will be produced. |
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[794] | 495 | |
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[3104] | 496 | You can also use these commands : |
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| 497 | |
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| 498 | $ pkusers --list |
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| 499 | $ edpykota --list |
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| 500 | |
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| 501 | $ pkusers --list john paul george ringo |
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| 502 | $ edpykota --list --printer hp2100 john paul george ringo |
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| 503 | |
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[1107] | 504 | Quota reports are also available remotely by using the CGI script |
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[1345] | 505 | printquota.cgi provided in the cgi-bin/ subdirectory. You can |
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| 506 | also use the CSS stylesheet present in the stylesheets/ subdirectory |
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[1402] | 507 | and put it at your web server's DocumentRoot, to benefit from a nicer |
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| 508 | look, especially quota violations will appear in different colors. |
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[990] | 509 | |
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[2262] | 510 | For additionnal security concerns, please give a look at the SECURITY |
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[980] | 511 | file which is part of this software. |
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[2234] | 512 | |
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| 513 | To diagnose a problem when something doesn't work as expected, |
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[3104] | 514 | please read this FAQ entry : |
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| 515 | |
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| 516 | http://otrs.librelogiciel.com/otrs/public.pl?ID=2 |
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[741] | 517 | |
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[695] | 518 | ============================================================ |
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| 519 | |
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[1979] | 520 | Additionnal tools : |
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| 521 | ------------------- |
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| 522 | |
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| 523 | Some people have developped tools around PyKota, and make |
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| 524 | them available under the GNU General Public License : |
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| 525 | |
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| 526 | - Kanakorn Horsiritham developped phpPykotaAdmin which is |
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[2126] | 527 | a web based database independant administrative GUI, |
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| 528 | written in PHP. |
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[1979] | 529 | |
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| 530 | http://opensource.psu.ac.th/~kanakorn/mambo/ |
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[2126] | 531 | |
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| 532 | He was also kind enough to write an installation guide |
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| 533 | in english for CUPS and PyKota with phpPykotaAdmin on Fedora |
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| 534 | Core 3. You'll find this document on the same website. |
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| 535 | |
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| 536 | This great software currently at version 0.3 is a wonderful |
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| 537 | basis for an administrative GUI since it only depends on |
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| 538 | PyKota commands to be present to successfully manage |
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| 539 | PyKota's database. |
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[3104] | 540 | |
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| 541 | However this tool is very old now and doesn't work |
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| 542 | with more recent versions of PyKota. It could be |
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| 543 | a good starting point if you planned to develop such |
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| 544 | a web user interface though. |
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[1979] | 545 | |
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| 546 | Additionnal software will be listed here when they will be |
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| 547 | ready. |
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| 548 | |
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| 549 | ============================================================ |
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| 550 | |
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[958] | 551 | Mailing list : |
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| 552 | -------------- |
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| 553 | |
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| 554 | A mailing list is dedicated to Pykota, you can subscribe to it |
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| 555 | or consult its archives at : |
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| 556 | |
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| 557 | http://cgi.librelogiciel.com/mailman/listinfo/pykota |
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| 558 | |
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[1600] | 559 | The mailing list is the preferred way to obtain support, because |
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| 560 | all members can help and can also benefit from the solutions |
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| 561 | proposed by other members. |
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| 562 | |
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| 563 | Posts by non-members are usually rejected. |
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| 564 | |
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| 565 | The mailing list language is english and only english. |
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| 566 | |
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[1181] | 567 | IRC : |
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| 568 | ----- |
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| 569 | |
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| 570 | You can also chat with us : |
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| 571 | |
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| 572 | /server irc.freenode.net |
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| 573 | /join #pykota |
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[1600] | 574 | |
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| 575 | Preferred language on this channel is english, but french |
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| 576 | is also accepted. Try to avoid exposing complex problems |
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| 577 | in french because english speaking people on the channel |
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| 578 | wouldn't benefit from the solutions. |
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| 579 | |
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| 580 | PyKota's main author is known as 'tamere' on IRC. |
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[1181] | 581 | |
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[958] | 582 | ============================================================ |
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| 583 | |
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[1107] | 584 | Please e-mail bugs to the mailing list at : pykota@librelogiciel.com |
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| 585 | or to the main author at : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet) |
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