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pac [-cmrs] [-p price] [-P printer] [name]
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.
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. The assumption here is that the PRINTER environment variable is unspecified and no dollar amount for cost per page is specified in the /etc/qconfig file, or there is no /etc/qconfig file. 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
Specifies the command path Accounting information summary file. Printer information summary file, where printcap symbol af defines the name of the accounting file.
Commands: acct(8), acctcms(8), acctcom(8), acctcon(8), acctmerg(8), acctprc(8), printcap(4), runacct(8) delim off