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CUPS Administrative Guide

By : Ankur Shah
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CUPS Administrative Guide

By: Ankur Shah

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CUPS Administrative Guide
Ankur Shah
Sep, 2008 | 248 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CUPS Administrative Guide
CUPS Administrative Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
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1
Introduction
Introduction
Overview of the CUPS Features
History of Printing in UNIX
Printing with Personal Computers
Evolution of CUPS as a Printing System
CUPS Features
Summary
2
Building and Installing CUPS
Building and Installing CUPS
Downloading Source Code
Installing the Software
Installing a Binary Distribution
Installing CUPS Using the Package Manager on Linux
Testing CUPS
Summary
3
Printer Management
Printer Management
Printer Drivers
Managing Printer through the Command Line
Managing Print Jobs through Command Line
Managing Printers using the CUPS Web Interface
Summary
4
Managing Multiple Printers at a Time
Managing Multiple Printers at a Time
Configuring Printer Classes
Managing Printer Classes Through Command-Line
Managing Printer Classes Through CUPS Web Interface
Summary
5
CUPS Server Management
CUPS Server Management
System Requirement
Configuration Files
Classes Directives
Client Directives
Server Directives
Important Directives of cupsd.conf
Printer Directives
Concept of Operation Policies
Summary
6
Client Setup
Client Setup
Setting up a CUPS Client
Summary
7
Quota Management
Quota Management
Setting up Quota in CUPS
Correct and Incorrect Accounting
Overview of the page_log file
Flaws of the CUPS Quota system
Other Accounting Tools
Summary
8
Monitoring CUPS
Monitoring CUPS
Using the lpstat Command
Overview of the access_log File
Overview of the error_log File
Overview of snmp.conf
How SNMP Behaves in the CUPS Web Interface
Overview of mailto.conf
Monitoring SNMP Printers
Summary
9
File Typing and Filtering
File Typing and Filtering
Architecture—CUPS Filtering System
An Overview of the mime.types file
An Overview of the mime.convs file
Adding Filetypes and Filters
Overview of Filter in CUPS
Summary
10
Security
Security
Encryption Support in CUPS
Access Control
Authentication Support
Summary

Flaws of the CUPS Quota system

As flexible as the CUPS quota system is, it has a few flaws that you will need to keep in mind:

  • The CUPS quota system works only if the printers are working properly. If the printer hardware has failed, the log information may not be correct.

  • CUPS counts the job pages that are being processed by the software (that is, going through the RIP) rather than the physical sheets successfully leaving the printing device. If there is a jam while say printing the tenth sheet out of 100, and the job is aborted by the printer, the page count will still show that 100 pages were processed for that job.

  • With this system, there is no provision to set up quotas for individual users. Quotas can be turned on or off for individual users, but it is not possible to assign different quota levels. If you want to give senior management higher quotas than the rest of the employees, you cannot do this with CUPS.

  • You cannot see how much of the quota users have left for the assigned time...

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