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
PRINTERis 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.
OUTPUT FORMAT
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
HISTORY
The pac command appeared in
4.0BSD.
BUGS
The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown.