Print logging and details

Question

Hello all and thank you in advance for all answers and feedback.
I currently manage a peer-to-peer network. I use my G5 server for many uses and now I would like for it to serve as a Print Server as well.
I read previous posts and the Bonjour for Windows is the solution I went for the pc clients. The Mac clients are not an issue at all.
So I've shared a printer, installed it on a pc machine and it prints fine. The only thing I would like for it to do is to log more info on the print jobs that go through the server (number of pages, size of files, etc). The only thing that it has been able to log so far is the ip address and time... nothing more.
I have also read (can't remember where now) that the server is not best configured to track the amount of printing done on it.
Do any of you have a better idea how to track this ? Is there a 3rd party app or a hidden server feature that would allow me to track the jobs in such a way ?
Thank you again !

Answer 1

Hello,
Don't know if it's what you need, but as I said in a previous post, I wrote a small program in order to log (and accounting) pages printed.
By default, it rejects print job if you are over quota, but if you have a look in the osxpq script, you can change the line
log_only = "n"
to
log_only = "y"
So it will accept all jobs and will give you this kind of log (in /var/log/osxpq.log):
[2007/06/05 - 12:14:21] mcoudray s211 (job 19129 from 10.23.2.57) 1 copies of 2 pages - ACCEPTED (new quota is 21)
[2007/06/05 - 12:14:33] mcoudray s211 (job 19130 from 10.23.2.57) 1 copies of 4 pages - ACCEPTED (new quota is 17)
[2007/06/05 - 12:16:54] tbrandle s211 (job 19131 from 10.23.2.51) 1 copies of 2 pages - ACCEPTED (new quota is 24)
[2007/06/05 - 12:17:12] tbrandle s211 (job 19132 from 10.23.2.51) 1 copies of 4 pages - ACCEPTED (new quota is 20)
[2007/06/05 - 12:21:58] boucard repro_hp8000 (job 19135 from 10.23.1.156) 1 copies of 1 pages - ACCEPTED (no quota set)
More details on http://www.stlo.unicaen.fr/~paul/osxpq/