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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Printer Accounting on Ultrix4.1/DS3100
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.143601.17861@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 14:36:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.210038.16057@bnr.ca>
Organization: Western Michigan University Academic Computing Services
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In article <1991Feb20.210038.16057@bnr.ca> janick@bnr.ca writes:
>I wish to monitor printer usage via the accounting facility.
>I've added an 'af=/usr/adm/ln03r.acct' entry in my /etc/printcap
>file and restarted the lpd deamon but no information gets written
>to the accounting file.
>
>I 'touch'ed the file which is owned by root, mode 644. Its size remains 0.

You might want to try protecting them 664.  My accounting files are owner root,
group system, and mode 664 and things work ok.

Another potential problem could be the filter:  does it support accounting?

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