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07/28/03 23:06:45 (21 years ago)
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More complete README file

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    216216provided as well. 
    217217 
    218 Copy the conf/pykota.conf.sample sample configuration file to 
    219 /etc/pykota/pykota.conf. The installation script tries to do this for 
    220 you if needed and you agreed to this action. 
    221 You need to adapt the /etc/pykota/pykota.conf file to your own needs. 
     218Copy the conf/pykota.conf.sample and  conf/pykotadmin.conf.sample 
     219sample configuration files to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf and  
     220/etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf. The installation script tries to do this  
     221for you if needed and you agreed to this action. 
     222You need to adapt these files to your own needs. 
    222223Especially you have to create sections named after your own 
    223224printers, and change the administrator's email address. 
     
    271272    each printer he can have a different soft and hard limit. 
    272273    You may want to limit the user by his account balance value,  
    273     in which case, the print quota is shared between all pinters 
     274    in which case, the print quota is shared between all printers 
    274275    instead of being different. To do this, use the following : 
    275276     
     
    282283    and per job that you may have defined on the printer with edpykota's 
    283284    --charge command line option. 
    284     Soft and Hard limits are not used if "--limitby balance" is used. 
     285    Soft and Hard limits are not used if "--limitby balance" is used, 
     286    but you can define a "poorman"'s threshold in /etc/pykota/pykota.conf 
     287    to obtain a similar result (warning message when quota is low). 
    285288 
    286289Restart CUPS or LPRng, for example under Debian GNU/Linux systems :           
     
    304307     
    305308    which will print quota usage for all users on all printers, 
    306     along with totals. 
    307      
    308 Quota reports are also available remotely by using the CGI scripts 
    309 provided in the cgi-bin/ subdirectory. 
     309    along with totals, if you are the root user. If you are 
     310    a regular user, only your own quota report will be produced. 
     311     
     312Quota reports are also available remotely by using the CGI script 
     313printquota.cgi provided in the cgi-bin/ subdirectory. 
    310314 
    311315For different security concerns, please give a look at the SECURITY 
     
    324328============================================================ 
    325329     
    326 Please e-mail bugs to: alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet) 
     330Please e-mail bugs to the mailing list at : pykota@librelogiciel.com 
     331or to the main author at : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet)