winfave@dutrun.UUCP (Alexander Verbraeck) (03/01/90)
At our department (information systems) a large number of students are working on Unix systems (Sun, HP). These systems are connected via ethernet. On the system we have a number of laser printers. At the moment, students are wasting enormous amounts of paper using the laser printers. We would like to limit their use of the printers. Unix does accounting for the printers. Question: is it possible to check for the number of printed pages and perform a "budget cutoff" when the allowed number of pages is surpassed? Does anyone have software for this? BTW: Why does UNIX have a cutoff for disk usage (quota) but not for printer usage? Any help would be appreciated! Sincerely, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Verbraeck e-mail: winfave@dutrun.tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology winfave@hdetud1.bitnet Department of Information Systems winfave@dutrun.uucp PO Box 356, 2600 AJ The Netherlands dutrun!winfave@hp4nl.uucp ----------------------------------------------------------------------