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11 <P>The
<VAR>page_log
</VAR> file lists each page that is sent to a
12 printer. By default, each line contains the following information:
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16 printer user job-id date-time page-number num-copies job-billing job-originating-host-name job-name media sides
<BR>
20 DeskJet root
2 [
20/May/
1999:
19:
21:
05 +
0000]
1 1 acme-
123 localhost myjob letter one-sided
<BR>
22 DeskJet root
2 [
20/May/
1999:
19:
21:
05 +
0000]
2 1 acme-
123 localhost myjob letter one-sided
<BR>
26 <p>The
<a href=
"ref-cupsd-conf.html#PageLogFormat"><code>PageLogFormat
</code></a>
27 directive can be used to change this information.
</p>
29 <P>The
<I>printer
</I> field contains the name of the printer that
30 printed the page. If you send a job to a printer class, this
31 field will contain the name of the printer that was assigned the
34 <P>The
<I>user
</I> field contains the name of the user (the IPP
35 <CODE>requesting-user-name
</CODE> attribute) that submitted this
36 file for printing.
</P>
38 <P>The
<I>job-id
</I> field contains the job number of the page
39 being printed. Job numbers are reset to
1 whenever the spool
40 directory (
<VAR>/var/spool/cups
</VAR>) is cleared, so don't
41 depend on this number being unique!
</P>
43 <P>The
<I>date-time
</I> field contains the date and time of when
44 the page started printing. The format of this field is identical
45 to the
<I>data-time
</I> field in the
<VAR>access_log
</VAR>
48 <P>The
<I>page-number
</I> and
<I>num-copies
</I> fields contain the
49 page number and number of copies being printed of that page. For
50 printers that cannot produce copies on their own, the
51 <I>num-copies
</I> field will always be
1.
</P>
53 <P>The
<I>job-billing
</I> field contains a copy of the
54 <CODE>job-billing
</CODE> attribute provided with the IPP
55 <CODE>Create-Job
</CODE> or
<CODE>Print-Job
</CODE> requests or
"-"
58 <P>The
<I>job-originating-host-name
</I> field contains the hostname or IP
59 address of the client that printed the job.
</P>
61 <P>The
<I>job-name
</I> field contains a copy of the
62 <CODE>job-name
</CODE> attribute provided with the IPP
63 <CODE>Create-Job
</CODE> or
<CODE>Print-Job
</CODE> requests or
"-"
66 <P>The
<I>media
</I> field contains a copy of the
67 <CODE>media
</CODE> attribute provided with the IPP
68 <CODE>Create-Job
</CODE> or
<CODE>Print-Job
</CODE> requests or
"-"
71 <P>The
<I>sides
</I> field contains a copy of the
72 <CODE>sides
</CODE> attribute provided with the IPP
73 <CODE>Create-Job
</CODE> or
<CODE>Print-Job
</CODE> requests or
"-"