Printer-usage accounting data

The collection of printer-usage data is a cooperative effort between the enq command and the queuing daemon.

The enq command enqueues the user name, job number, and the name of the file to be printed. After the file is printed, the qdaemon command writes an ASCII record to a file, usually the /var/adm/qacct file, containing the user name, user number, and the number of pages printed. You can sort these records and convert them to total accounting records. For more information about these commands, see enq and qdaemon.