Printer Accounting on Ultrix4.1/DS3100

[Leonard Peirce]

In article <1991Feb20.210038.16057 at bnr.ca> janick at 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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