4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat8/pac.0

PAC(8)                                                                  PAC(8)


NAME
       pac - printer/plotter accounting information

SYNOPSIS
       /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 con‐
       sumed 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.  Nor‐
       mally, 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.


4.2 Berkeley Distribution      October 30, 1985                         PAC(8)