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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,  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:

     -Pprinter	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 	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 print-
		ing 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 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, statis-
		tics 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 unknown.

FreeBSD 16.0 CURRENT		  June 6, 1993				  PAC(8)

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