Billing Users

If you provide special user services on a request basis, such as restoring files or remote printing, you may want to bill users by running a utility called chargefee(1M). chargefee records charges in the file /var/adm/fee. Each time the runacct utility is executed, new entries are merged into the total accounting records.

How to Bill Users

1. Become superuser.

2. Charge a user for special services.

   # chargefee username amount

   username	User account you want to bill.
   amount	Number of units to bill the user.

Example--Billing Users

The following example charges the user print_customer 10 units.

# chargefee print_customer 10