Changeset 724 for pykota/trunk/README

Timestamp:

02/06/03 16:26:01 (21 years ago)

Author:

jalet

Message:

Cleaner documentation

Files:

• pykota/trunk/README (modified) (5 diffs)

pykota/trunk/README

@@ -18 +18 @@
 for the number of pages they have printed.
 
-Current or planned features are :
+Actually only the lazy quota method is implemented. What do I call
+lazy method ?
 
-        - Easy installation.
+  The lazy method consists in querying the printer via SNMP for
+  its total pages counter, just before the beginning of a job, and
+  use this to modify the *preceding* user's quota. So you're
+  always late of one print job, but this is generally ok, especially
+  because a check is also done to see if the current user is allowed
+  or not to print.
+  
+  Problem may arise however in batches on successive print jobs 
+  my different users when there's no sleep time between two jobs :
+  the used pages may be attributed to incorrect user. This
+  depends on the printer speed and time between jobs.
+  
+  Other querying methods which won't suffer from this problem,
+  but probably from other ones ;-) will be implemented in the 
+  future.
+  
+PyKota is know to work fine with HP Laserjet 2100 and 2200   
+networked printers.
+
+Planned features are :
+
+        - Easier installation.
         
         - Per printer User and Group quotas. Currently Group
           quotas are only at skeleton stage.
         
-        - Centralized configurable storage : currently
-          only a PostgreSQL database backend is supported,
-          but at least LDAP and MySQL are planned.
-          
-        - Automated mailing of warning or error messages to  
-          users and print administrator when print quota is 
-          exceeded.
-          
         - Configurable printer querying methods. Currently
           only SNMP method is supported.
-
-Look at the documentation in the docs subdirectory to learn
-more.
+          
+        - More Quota Storage backends.  
 
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@@ -75 +88 @@
 ------
  
-Download the latest PyKota version from :
+Download the latest PyKota version from the CVS tree on :
 
-        http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/
-
-Extract it and install it on the CUPS Server :
-
-        gzip -d pykota-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-
-        where x.xx is PyKota's latest version number.
-
-Go to PyKota's directory :
-
-        cd pykota-x.xx
+        http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pykota
 
 Just type :
@@ -112 +115 @@
 --- Add the line above exactly as-is somewhere near the top  ---
 
-Modify the path to pykota if needed, unfortunately you have to
-supply the correct absolute path here due to CUPS internals, or
-put the pykota executable into /usr/lib/cups/filter instead of
-into /usr/bin.
+Modify the path to the pykota executable if needed, unfortunately 
+you have to supply the correct absolute path here due to CUPS 
+internals, or put the pykota executable into /usr/lib/cups/filter 
+instead of into /usr/bin. 
 
-Do this in each ppd file present in this directory if you want
+Do this for each ppd file present in this directory if you want
 to enable quota on every printer.
           
@@ -123 +126 @@
 
         $ edpykota -P printer -S softlimit -H hardlimit user1 ... userN
+        
+        launching edpykota without any argument or with the --help
+        command line option will show you all the possibilities.
 
 Restart CUPS, for example under Debian GNU/Linux systems :          
@@ -131 +137 @@
 printing quota.
 
+WARNING : as of today, 2003-02-06, group quotas are not
+implemented.
+
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