Showing Printer Usage

You can display printer or plotter usage accounting records with the pac command.

Prerequisites

• To collect printer usage information, you must have an accounting system set up and running. See "Setting Up an Accounting System" for guidelines.
• The printer or plotter for which you want accounting records must have an acctfile= clause in the printer's stanza of the /etc/qconfig file. The file specified in the acctfile= clause must grant read and write permissions to the root user or printq group.
• If the -s flag of the pac command is specified, the command rewrites the summary file name by appending _sum to the path name specified by the acctfile= clause in the /etc/qconfig file. This file must exist and grant read and write permissions to the root user or printq group.

Procedure

• To display printer usage information for all users of a particular printer, enter:

  /usr/sbin/pac -PPrinter

  If you do not specify a printer, the default printer is named by the PRINTER environment variable. If the PRINTER variable is not defined, the default is lp0.
• To display printer usage information for particular users of a particular printer, enter:

  /usr/sbin/pac -PPrinter User1 User2 ...

The pac command offers a number of other flags for controlling what information gets displayed. See the AIX Version 4.3 Commands Reference for details.