pac(8)							      System Manager's Manual							    pac(8)

NAME

       pac - Outputs printer/plotter accounting information

SYNOPSIS

       pac [-cmrs] [-p price] [-P printer] [name]

FLAGS

       Sorts  output  according to the computed cost instead of alphabetically according to user.  Groups all printing charges for the user speci-
       fied by name, without regard for the host machine from which printing was invoked.  The dollar amount charged per unit of output  specified
       by price.  The default dollar amount charged is $0.02 per unit.	Specifies the printer for which accounting records are produced.  Alterna-
       tively, the system selects the printer named with the PRINTER environment variable, or the default printer lp0.	Reverses the sorted order,
       so  that  records  are  listed alphabetically from z to a, or in descending order by computed cost when this flag is used with the -c flag.
       Writes printer accounting information to a summary file. You must specify the -P flag and printer name (or synonym) when you use this flag.
       Output is made to a file that is associated with the af entry for the specified printer in the /etc/printcap file.  This file is located in
       the /usr/adm directory. The file name is usually the af accounting file name, with  the	letters  _sum  (summary)  appended,  for  example:
       /usr/adm/lp2acct_sum.  Accounting information is in three unheaded columns in the format: pages/feet   machinename:username   runs

DESCRIPTION

       When printer accounting is enabled in the /etc/printcap file, and you use the pac command in a shell script or from the standard input, pac
       outputs printer/plotter accounting records to the standard output for each user of the printer specified with the -P flag and printer  name
       or  for	users specified with the name parameter. The unit used for printer accounting is the number of pages printed.  However, for raster
       devices (such typesetters, and plotters) length in feet of print medium (film, for example) is the unit used.  Output units  are  expressed
       both  as  the  number of units used and the charge in dollars according to the price specified with -p flag and price amount per unit.  The
       printer/plotter	accounting  output  has  the  following  column   headings   and   format:   Login		 pages/feet	runs price
       chicken:rcb	   19.00	  2    $   0.38  sardine:jmp	     22.00	    3	 $  0.44 hunch:lucy	     53.00	    12	 $
       1.06 stovetop:suki	1.00	  1    $  0.02 newspaper:myralou   834.00	  202  $  16.68  wimbledon:nhk	     69.00	    20	 $
       1.38 norfolk:sophie 184.00	  17   $  3.68

       There  are  four fields, each with its own column heading, in each record of the default output produced by the pac command: 1) the machine
       from which the print command was entered and login name is entered in the Login column; 2) the number of pages or feet of paper	output	is
       entered in the page/feet column; 3) the number of times the printer was used is entered in the runs column; and 4) the cost computed at the
       default or specified price is entered in the price column.

EXAMPLES

       To print printer/plotter accounting information for all users of default printer lp0 to the standard output  device,  enter:  /usr/sbin/pac
       Output  is  sorted alphabetically according to machine name and username.  The number of printed pages or feet of output paper used and the
       charge per foot of paper or page is computed at the default dollar amount of $0.02 per page because  no	flags  are  specified.	 To  write
       accounting  records for printer printer1 in a summary file, enter the following line as a superuser or as adm: /usr/sbin/pac  -Pprinter1 -s
       Summary information is written to the file /var/adm/printer1acct_sum.  To produce accounting information for users lucy, suki  and  myralou
       for pages printed on printer putnam408, enter: /usr/sbin/pac  -Pputnam408  lucy suki myralou

FILES

       Specifies  the  command	path  Accounting information summary file.  Printer information summary file, where printcap symbol af defines the
       name of the accounting file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: acct(8), acctcms(8), acctcom(8), acctcon(8), acctmerg(8), acctprc(8), printcap(4), runacct(8) delim off

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