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How to check your print quota history

  • Introduction
  • Brief Procedure Overview
  • Step by Step Procedure

    Introduction

    The print quota history administration program was developed to permit the user to view the history of jobs sent to the printers in the ECC laboratories.

    Brief Procedure

    If you wish to check the status of your print quota history you must first log into the server. Once connected enter the command "pqphistory".


    Step by Step Procedure

    Explanatory comments are written in italics. In most cases, text in [brackets] represents input which varies with needs of the user, text in "quotes" represent menu items, icon choices or something needing to be typed exactly as shown and bold text represents the expected computer prompt or resultant response.

    1. Log into the server using the instructions in the How To Log Into Your Server Account page.
    2. At the command prompt (example green.eng.utoledo.edu% ) type "pqphistory"
      This should produce output similar to the following:

    3. Print Quota Printing History for "jsmith" as of 2005/08/04-13:26:03
      Date & Time Pages Print Queue Host
      2005/05/19-10:04:14 1 lj1022 ne102216.eng.utoledo.edu
      2005/05/20-14:29:50 1 lj1072 ni107228.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/05/31-22:58:38 1 lj1002 ne100217.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/02-10:00:24 1 lj1039 ne102912.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/02-13:01:37 4 lj1047 ne104720.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/02-14:58:45 1 lj1075 ni107513.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/12-14:50:11 1 lj1075 ni107513.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/19-14:41:47 3 clj1013-1 ni107513.ni.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/24-10:34:43 1 lj1026 ne102625.eng.utoledo.edu
      2005/06/28-10:39:20 1 lj1022 ne102210.eng.utoledo.edu
      2005/07/01-13:42:48 2 lj1072 ni101308.ni.utoledo.edu

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