Changeset 908 for pykota/trunk/bin/pykota

Timestamp:

04/12/03 18:58:28 (22 years ago)

Author:

jalet

Message:

The workaround for HP printers was not correct, and there's probably no
correct way to workaround the problem because we can't save the internal
page counter in real time. The last job's size is unconditionnally set to
5 pages in this case.

Files:

• pykota/trunk/bin/pykota (modified) (2 diffs)

pykota/trunk/bin/pykota

@@ -23 +23 @@
 #
 # $Log$
+# Revision 1.20  2003/04/12 16:58:28  jalet
+# The workaround for HP printers was not correct, and there's probably no
+# correct way to workaround the problem because we can't save the internal
+# page counter in real time. The last job's size is unconditionnally set to
+# 5 pages in this case.
+#
 # Revision 1.19  2003/04/11 08:56:49  jalet
 # Comment
@@ -213 +219 @@
                 # its primary counter is only saved in a 10 increment, so
                 # it may be lower than the last page counter saved in the
-                # Quota Storage, we take the absolute value of the difference
-                # this should take care of the "missing" pages.
+                # Quota Storage. We unconditionnally set 5 (five) pages
+                # as the last job's size. This is a mean. For more accurate
+                # accounting, don't switch off your HP printers !
                 # explanation at : http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
                 kotafilter.logger.log_message(_("Error in page count value %i for user %s on printer %s") % (jobsize, lastusername, kotafilter.printername), "error")
-                jobsize = abs(jobsize)
+                jobsize = 5     # Workaround for HP printers' feature !
                 
             # update the quota for the previous user on this printer