pac
—
printer/plotter accounting information
pac |
[-cmrs ] [-P
printer] [-p
price] [name ...] |
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.
Options and operands available:
-P
printer
- 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
- flag causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the output is sorted
alphabetically by name.
-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.
-p
price
- 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.
- names
- Statistics are only printed for user(s) name;
usually, statistics are printed for every user who has used any
paper.
pac
formats the output into simple table, using four
columns - number of feets or pages (column "pages/feet"), how many
copies were made (column "runs"), total price for this print (column
"price") and user login with host name (column "login" or
"host name and login"). If argument name was
not used and hence pac
is printing information for all
users, a summary line with print totals (runs, pages, price) is appended.
Note that pac
on other system might print
the price as price per copy.
- /var/account/?acct
- raw accounting files
- /var/account/?_sum
- summary accounting files
- /etc/printcap
- printer capability data base
The pac
command appeared in
4.0BSD.
The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown.