NAME
pac - printer/plotter accounting information
SYNOPSIS
/usr/etc/pac [ -Pprinter ] [ -pprice ] [ -s ] [ -r ] [ -c ]
[ -m ]
[ 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. If any names are
specified,
then statistics are only printed for those users; usually,
statistics are printed for every user who has used any
paper.
The -P flag causes accounting to
be 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.
The -p flag causes the value
price to be used for the cost in
dollars instead of the default value of 0.02 or the price
specified
in /etc/printcap.
The -c flag causes the output to
be sorted by cost; usually the
output is sorted alphabetically by name.
The -r flag reverses the sorting order.
The -s flag causes the
accounting information to be 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.
The -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.
FILES
/usr/adm/?acct raw accounting files
/usr/adm/?_sum summary accounting files
/etc/printcap printer capability data base
SEE ALSO
printcap(5)
BUGS
The relationship between the computed price and reality is
as yet
unknown.