pac(8)pac(8)Namepac - 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 con‐
sumed 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. Nor‐
mally, 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 sev‐
eral 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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