NAME
pac —
printer/plotter accounting
information
SYNOPSIS
pac |
[-cmrs]
[-P
printer]
[-p price]
[name ...] |
DESCRIPTION
pac reads the printer/plotter accounting files, accumulating
the number of pages (the usual case) or feet (for raster devices) of paper
consumed by each user, and printing out how much each user consumed in pages
or feet and dollars.
Options and operands available:
-
-
- -Pprinter
- Accounting is done for the named printer. Normally,
accounting is done for the default printer (site dependent) or the value
of the environment variable
PRINTER
is used.
-
-
- -c
- flag causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the
output is sorted alphabetically by name.
-
-
- -m
- flag causes the host name to be ignored in the accounting
file. This allows for a user on multiple machines to have all of his
printing charges grouped together.
-
-
- -pprice
- The value price is used for the cost
in dollars instead of the default value of 0.02 or the price specified in
/etc/printcap.
-
-
- -r
- Reverse the sorting order.
-
-
- -s
- Accounting information is summarized on the summary
accounting file; this summarization is necessary since on a busy system,
the accounting file can grow by several lines per day.
-
-
- names
- Statistics are only printed for user(s)
name; usually, statistics are printed for every user
who has used any paper.
pac formats the output into simple table, using four columns -
number of feets or pages (column "pages/feet"), how many copies were
made (column "runs"), total price for this print (column
"price") and user login with host name (column "login" or
"host name and login"). If argument
name was
not used and hence
pac is printing information for all
users, a summary line with print totals (runs, pages, price) is appended.
Note that
pac on other system might print the price as price
per copy.
FILES
- /var/account/?acct
- raw accounting files
- /var/account/?_sum
- summary accounting files
- /etc/printcap
- printer capability data base
SEE ALSO
printcap(5)
HISTORY
The
pac command appeared in
4.0BSD.
BUGS
The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown.