Re: Re: More meaningful comments from lpq

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> > 
> > Helge Blischke wrote:
> > > Didier Casse wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >    When I tried to "lpq" my CUPS system to see which jobs are
> > > > being
> > > > processed, I get something like:
> > > >
> > > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > > EPSON is ready and printing
> > > >
> > > > Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
> > > >
> > > > active nobody 1341 smbprn.005733.du8Ltw 1651712 bytes
> > > > active nobody 1340 smbprn.005643.fr4Pyg 2345465 bytes
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > > etc...
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to modify the system so that I can get the exact
> > > > name
> > > > of what is being printed?
> > > >
> > > > E.g something like
> > > >
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
> > > >
> > > > active nobody 1341 published_paper.pdf 1651712 bytes
> > > > active nobody 1341 some_works.doc      5436546 bytes
> > > > active nobody 1341 painting.ps         6574377 bytes
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > which is more meaningful than smbprn*. Thanks for an help provided.
> > > >
> > >
> > > In the general case, no, I suspect. Your log indicates that you
> > > are
> > > printing
> > > jobs from Winxx boxes via samba. Thus, you cannot rely on meaningful
> > > filenames.
> > 
> > Using
> > 
> >   printing = cups
> >   printcap = cups
> > 
> > in smb.conf and it works for me in Samba-3.0....
> 
> ... well, it works even in Samba-2.2.7a and higher. But what you see
> is what the application manages to write into the %%Title: comment in
> the PostScript header. If you see a dozen jobs all named "Microsoft 
> Word - Utitled document", I think this isn't very helpful as well.
> 

Well, for me it writes

   "Microsoft Word - CUPS-Samba-Printfilename-Test.doc"

and this is helpful enough (as compared to "smbprn.005733.du8Ltw").[The
"Untitled document" is used only if I fail to save a newly created Winword
doc....]

Also, my "published_paper.pdf" and "painting.ps" filenames work as expected.

> What I was thinking of is a set of (more or less heuristic) rules to
> interprete
> the header comments (and the job ticket comments from the CUPS driver).
> 

This may be a good idea to implement, nevertheless.

Cheers,
Kurt