Last modified on $Date$ pkhint is an experimental command designed with the goal to help you find the best PyKota settings for each of your printers. Currently pkhint only recognizes CUPS' printers.conf file format, but LPRng' printcap file format support will be added in the future. pkhint accepts optional printers names as its arguments, and reads your printing system's printers configuration file from stdin. Then it launches different tests to see if your printers supports some special features which would allow you to use either hardware or software accounting on them, with a preference for hardware since it's more reliable. If it can help you, it will print some text which you will be able to copy and paste into /etc/pykota/pykota.conf. Because pkhint is still a work in progress, don't expect it to allow you to fully configure PyKota for you. You'll still have to double check that your configuration is correct. pkhint -v--version -h--help printer1 printer2 ...