On Tue, 3 May 2005 07:09, Mark Andrews wrote:

I've configured a SLES server as a CUPS server, installing several printers and enabling it as an IPP server. Several of my client SuSE workstations have been configured as IPP clients. When a job is printed from a client system, it is dispatched to the print server via IPP and successfully printed.

We wish to employ some sort of billing service by collecting the IPP record reports from each individual print job.

A list of printed jobs is available using 'lpstat -W completed -u' on the client or server, but it doesn't include the 'job-originating-host-name' available from the kjobviewer gui and encoded in the binary files (/var/spool/cups/<job #>) on the print server.

Has anyone written or know of a command which will print the name information as 'lpstat -W completed', but also include the hostname/IP-addr of the host which originated the print request, in text?

Thanks

Although this maybe over the top for your requirements it maybe worth looking at. PyKota is a complete GPLed Print Quota and Accounting Software Solution for the Common UNIX Printing System (aka CUPS) and LPR Next Generation (aka LPRng) on GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems, which offers a great flexibility with regard to the page accounting methods it supports. http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation Also have a look at CUPS Applications and Tools http://fritz.potsdam.edu/projects/cupsapps/ -- Regards, Graham Smith