PAC(1M)                         Printing Tools                         PAC(1M)


NAME
     pac - BSD printer accounting information

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/etc/pac [ -Pprinter ] [ -pprice ] [ -s ] [ -r ] [ -c ] [ -m ] [ name
     ... ]

DESCRIPTION
     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.  If any names are specified, then statistics are only
     printed for those users; usually, statistics are printed for every user
     who has used any paper.

     The -P flag 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.

     The -p flag causes the value price to be used for the cost in dollars
     instead of the default value of 0.02 or the price specified in
     /etc/printcap.

     The -c flag causes the output to be sorted by cost; usually the output is
     sorted alphabetically by name.

     The -r flag reverses the sorting order.

     The -s flag 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.

     The -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.

FILES
     /var/adm/?acct      raw accounting files
     /var/adm/?_sum      summary accounting files
     /etc/printcap       printer capability data base

SEE ALSO
     lpd(1M), lpc(1), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(4)

BUGS
     The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet
     unknown.


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