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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:38:44 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: WWW Interface & Logging Question

At 10:57 AM 01/28/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Are there any docs on the www part of ppr?  I see all this stuff in the www
>directory. but I don't know how to use it?  Does it work? Do I need to setup
>a virtual server in apache?

There is a README.txt file in the www/ directory which explains a little.
I would recomend running ppr-httpd from inetd rather than using Apache.

>Also, where do the PPR spoolers log to?  I want to keep a command window up
>showing whether or not any errors have occured.  Kind of like how if you do
>a "tail -f /var/log/messages" you can see a running account of your system
>messages.

If you create a file /var/spool/ppr/logs/printlog and make sure it is
writable by the user "ppr", then sucessful print jobs will be logged there.
 To see a running account of what PPR is doing, run ~ppr/bin/tail_status.

The WWW interface has a feature which will play spoken messages describing
what PPR is doing.


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