NAME¶
pac —
printer/plotter accounting
information
SYNOPSIS¶
pac |
[-cmrs]
[-Pprinter]
[-pprice]
[user ...] |
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 named
user, and prints out how much
each user consumed in pages or feet and dollars.
When no
user arguments are given, statistics are printed
for every user who has used any paper.
The options are as follows:
- -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
- Causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the output
is sorted alphabetically by name.
- -m
- 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.
pac formats the output into a simple table, using four
columns:
- The host name followed by the user's login name (column
"Login"). If the -m option was specified, the
host name will be omitted.
- The number of pages or feet printed (column
"pages/feet").
- The number of copies made (column "runs").
- The total price for the user (column
"price").
If no
user argument was specified,
pac
will print a summary line with print totals.
FILES¶
- /var/account/?acct
- raw accounting files
- /var/account/?_sum
- summary accounting files
- /etc/printcap
- printer capability database
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.