pac(8) System Manager's Manual pac(8)
Name
pac - printer/plotter accounting information
Syntax
/etc/pac [ -Pprinter ] [ -pprice ] [ -s ] [ -r ] [ -c ] [ name ... ]
Description
The command 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, sta-
tistics are only printed for those users; usually, statistics are printed for every user who has used any paper.
Options
-P 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.
-p Causes the value price to be used for the cost in dollars instead of the default value of 0.02.
-c Causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the output is sorted alphabetically by name.
-r Reverses the sorting order.
-s 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.
Restrictions
The relationship between the computed price and the actual price is unknown.
Files
Raw accounting files
Summary accounting files
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