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PAC(8)			    System Manager's Manual			PAC(8)

NAME
       pac -- printer/plotter accounting information

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

DEPRECATION NOTICE
       This  facility  is  scheduled  for  removal  prior  to  the  release of
       FreeBSD 16.0.

DESCRIPTION
       The pac utility reads the printer/plotter accounting files,  accumulat-
       ing  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:

       -Pprinter  Accounting  is  done	for  the named printer.	 Normally, ac-
		  counting is done for the default printer (site dependent) or
		  the value of the environment variable	PRINTER	is used.

       -c	  Cause	the output to be sorted	by cost; usually the output is
		  sorted alphabetically	by name.

       -m	  Cause	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.

       -pprice	  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 account-
		  ing 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,  sta-
		  tistics are printed for every	user who has used any paper.

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

SEE ALSO
       printcap(5)

HISTORY
       The pac utility appeared	in 4.0BSD.

BUGS
       The  relationship  between the computed price and reality is as yet un-
       known.

FreeBSD	16.0 CURRENT		 June 6, 1993				PAC(8)

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