Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Greetings UNIX and Linux folk.

I am running 4.3 and 5.3 AIX and I have about 100 printers. Id like to be able to parse a log for a certain printer to see when the last time it was used or how many jobs have gone through it.

Is there anything in AIX to help me do this? If not is there a shell script I can write to look at a system file?

Thanks,

Zipp
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

AIX does not by default log print jobs. For ASCII queues you can turn on accounting. Most of the time I do this with custom scripts for other types of printers.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Where or how do I turn on accounting for the ASCII queues. Id just like to know how often a printer is being used.

Thanks
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

John Tesch has created this information regarding this topic :

Steps for printer accounting for ASCII files.

1. Create a file in /var/adm for each queue, and change ownership to group printq.

# touch /var/adm/asc
# chown root:printq /var/adm/asc
# chmod 664

2. Set up the /etc/qconfig queue stanza accounting file.

# smitty chpq
enter the print queue name or select from F4 menu
Choose: 3 Accounting File
For ACCOUNTING FILE name enter full path name
Example: /var/adm/asc

3. List the queueu to verify the filename

# lsque -q asc
asc:
acctfile = /var/adm/asc
device = lp0

4. Print out the results with the pac accounting command.

# pac -Pasc
Login pages/feet runs price
jwtesch 14.00 2 USD .08
sambat 28.00 9 USD .56

total 42.00 11 USD .64

Accounting for PostScript or Pass-through queues.

AIX does not support printer accounting for these file types because of the difficulty in counting pages.
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