runacct(1m)
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runacct
run daily accounting
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SYNTAX
/usr/lib/acct/runacct [mmdd [state]]
DESCRIPTION
Runacct is the main daily accounting shell procedure. It is
normally initiated via cron(1M). Runacct processes connect, fee,
disk, and process accounting files. It also prepares summary
files for prdaily or billing purposes.
Runacct takes care not to damage active accounting files or
summary files in the event of errors. It records its progress by
writing descriptive diagnostic messages into active. When an
error is detected, a message is written to /dev/console, mail
(see mail(1)) is sent to root and adm, and runacct terminates.
Runacct uses a series of lock files to protect against re-
invocation. The files lock and lock1 are used to prevent
simultaneous invocation, and lastdate is used to prevent more
than one invocation per day.
Runacct breaks its processing into separate, restartable states
using statefile to remember the last state completed. It
accomplishes this by writing the state name into statefile.
Runacct then looks in statefile to see what it has done and to
determine what to process next. States are executed in the
following order:
SETUP Move active accounting files into working files.
WTMPFIX Verify integrity of wtmp file, correcting date
changes if necessary.
CONNECT1 Produce connect session records in ctmp.h
format.
CONNECT2 Convert ctmp.h records into tacct.h format.
PROCESS Convert process accounting records into tacct.h
format.
MERGE Merge the connect and process accounting
records.
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FEES Convert output of chargefee into tacct.h format
and merge with connect and process accounting
records.
DISK Merge disk accounting records with connect,
process, and fee accounting records.
MERGETACCT Merge the daily total accounting records in
daytacct with the summary total accounting
records in /usr/adm/acct/sum/tacct.
CMS Produce command summaries.
USEREXIT Any installation-dependent accounting programs
can be included here.
CLEANUP Cleanup temporary files and exit.
To restart runacct after a failure, first check the active file
for diagnostics, then fix up any corrupted data files such as
pacct or wtmp. The lock files and lastdate file must be removed
before runacct can be restarted. The argument mmdd is necessary
if runacct is being restarted, and specifies the month and day
for which runacct will rerun the accounting. Entry point for
processing is based on the contents of statefile; to override
this, include the desired state on the command line to designate
where processing should begin.
EXAMPLES
To start runacct.
nohup runacct 2> /usr/adm/acct/nite/fd2log &
To restart runacct.
nohup runacct 0601 2>> /usr/adm/acct/nite/fd2log &
To restart runacct at a specific state.
nohup runacct 0601 MERGE 2>> /usr/adm/acct/nite/fd2log &
FILES
/etc/wtmp
/usr/adm/pacct*
/usr/src/cmd/acct/tacct.h
/usr/src/cmd/acct/ctmp.h
/usr/adm/acct/nite/active
/usr/adm/acct/nite/daytacct
/usr/adm/acct/nite/lock
/usr/adm/acct/nite/lock1
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/usr/adm/acct/nite/lastdate
/usr/adm/acct/nite/statefile
/usr/adm/acct/nite/ptacct*.mmdd
SEE ALSO
acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcom(1), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M),
acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), cron(1M), fwtmp(1M), mail(1), acct(2),
acct(4), utmp(4), sysadm(1m).
Installing and Managing the DG/UX System.
BUGS
Normally it is not a good idea to restart runacct in the SETUP
state. Run SETUP manually and restart via:
runacct mmdd WTMPFIX
If runacct failed in the PROCESS state, remove the last ptacct
file because it will not be complete.
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