acct(1M)                                                 acct(1M)



NAME
     acctdisk, acctdusg, accton, acctwtmp - present  an  overview
     of accounting commands

SYNOPSIS
     acctdisk

     acctdusg [-p file] [-u file]

     accton [file]

     acctwtmp reason

ARGUMENTS
     file Specifies an existing file to which the process
          accounting records will be appended (see acct(2) and
          acct(4)).

     -p file
          Specifies a password file other than /etc/passwd (see
          diskusg(1M)).

     reason
          Specifies a string of up to 11 characters, numbers, $,
          or spaces.  For example, the following are suggestions
          for reboot and shutdown procedures, respectively:

             acctwtmp `uname` >> /etc/wtmp
             acctwtmp "file save" >> /etc/wtmp

     -u file
          Places records that acctdusg doesn't charge anyone for
          in file.  This is a potential way to find users trying
          to avoid disk charges.

DESCRIPTION
     acctdisk reads lines containing user ID, login name, and
     number of disk blocks and converts them to total accounting
     records that can be merged with other accounting records.

     acctdusg reads its standard input (usually from find -print)
     and computes consumption of disk resource (including
     indirect blocks) by login.

     accton turns process accounting off.

     acctwtmp writes a utmp(4) record containing the time and a
     reason to its standard output.  The record written will be
     of type ACCOUNTING (see utmp(4)).

     Accounting software is a set of tools (both C programs and
     shell procedures) that build accounting systems.  The



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acct(1M)                                                 acct(1M)



     acctsh(1M) command describes the shell procedures built on
     top of the C programs.

     Connect-time accounting is handled by programs writing
     records into /etc/utmp, (described in utmp(4)).  acctcon
     describes programs converting /etc/utmp into session and
     charging records, which acctmerg then summarizes.

     The A/UX system kernel performs process accounting.  When a
     process terminates, one record per process is written to a
     file (normally /usr/adm/pacct).  The programs in acctprc
     summarize this data for charging; acctcms summarizes command
     use.  You can examine current process data with acctcom.

     The acctmerg command merges and summarizes process
     accounting and connect-time accounting (or any accounting
     records in the format described in acct(4)) into total
     accounting records (see tacct format in acct(4)).  The
     prtacct command (see acctsh(1M)) formats accounting records.

FILES
     /usr/adm/pacct
          Current process accounting file
     /usr/lib/acct/acctdisk
          Executable file
     /usr/lib/acct/acctdusg
          Executable file
     /usr/lib/acct/accton
          Executable file
     /usr/lib/acct/acctwtmp
          Executable file
     /etc/passwd
          File containing user IDs
     /usr/lib/acct
          File containing accounting commands
     /etc/wtmp
          Login/logoff summary file

SEE ALSO
     acctcom(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M),
     acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), diskusg(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M)

     acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4) in A/UX Programmer's Reference












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