Changeset 2074 for pykota/trunk/conf/pykota.conf.sample

Timestamp:

02/19/05 19:16:06 (19 years ago)

Author:

jalet

Message:

Optimize print job parsing by avoiding to pass the job's datas through
PyKota's internal parser if the special construct "software()" is used
with no argument in the 'accounter' directive.

Files:

• pykota/trunk/conf/pykota.conf.sample (modified) (3 diffs)

pykota/trunk/conf/pykota.conf.sample

@@ -364 +364 @@
 #                 this way :
 #
+#                   accounter: software()
+#
+#                 which uses PyKota's internal parser to compute
+#                 the size of the job.
+#
+#                 You could obtain exactly the same result with :
+#
 #                   accounter: software(/usr/bin/pkpgcounter)
+#
+#                 But in this case the job would be passed through
+#                 PyKota's internal parser a second time.
 #
 #                 pkpgcounter is a command line tool which is
@@ -372 +382 @@
 #                 in the future, as time permits.
 #
-#                 while pkpgcounter is the recommended value
-#                 you can use whatever command you want provided
-#                 that your command accepts the job's data on its
-#                 standard input and prints the job's size in pages
-#                 as a single integer on its standard output.
+#                 while pkpgcounter is the recommended value if you want
+#                 to use an external command here, you can use whatever 
+#                 command you want provided your command accepts the job's
+#                 data on its standard input and prints the job's size in 
+#                 pages as a single integer on its standard output.
 # 
 # This value can be set either globally or on a per printer basis
@@ -384 +394 @@
 # accounter: hardware(snmp)
 # accounter: hardware(pjl)
-accounter: software(/usr/bin/pkpgcounter)
+# accounter: software(/usr/bin/pkpgcounter)
+#
+# The following is only allowed since PyKota 1.21 
+accounter: software()
 
 # What should we do if the accounter's subprocess doesn't return