acct(1M) DG/UX R4.11MU05 acct(1M)
NAME
acctdisk, acctdusg, accton, acctwtmp - overview of accounting and
miscellaneous accounting commands
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/acctdisk
/usr/lib/acct/acctdusg [-u file] [-p file]
/usr/lib/acct/accton [file]
/usr/lib/acct/acctwtmp "reason"
DESCRIPTION
Accounting software is structured as a set of tools (consisting of
both C programs and shell procedures) that can be used to build
accounting systems. Acctsh(1M) describes the set of shell procedures
built on top of the C programs.
Connect time accounting is handled by various programs that write
records into /etc/utmp, as described in utmp(4). The programs
described in acctcon(1M) convert this file into session and charging
records, which are then summarized by acctmerg(1M).
Process accounting is performed by the DG/UX system kernel. Upon
termination of a process, one record per process is written to a file
(normally /var/adm/pacct). The programs in acctprc(1M) summarize
this data for charging purposes; acctcms(1M) is used to summarize
command usage. Current process data may be examined using
acctcom(1).
Process accounting and connect time accounting (or any accounting
records in the format described in acct(4)) can be merged and
summarized into total accounting records by acctmerg (see tacct
format in acct(4)). Prtacct (see acctsh(1M)) is used to format any
or all accounting records.
Acctdisk reads lines that contain 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 disk resource consumption (including indirect blocks) by
login. If -u is given, records consisting of those file names for
which acctdusg charges no one are placed in file (a potential source
for finding users trying to avoid disk charges). If -p is given,
file is the name of the password file. This option is not needed if
the password file is /etc/passwd. (See diskusg(1M) for more
details.)
Accton alone turns process accounting off. If file is given, it must
be the name of an existing file, to which the kernel appends process
accounting records (see acct(2) and acct(4)).
Acctwtmp writes a utmp(4) record to its standard output. The record
contains the current time and a string of characters that describe
the reason. A record type of ACCOUNTING is assigned (see utmp(4)).
Reason must be a string of 11 or less characters, numbers, $, or
spaces. For example, the following are suggestions for use in reboot
and shutdown procedures, respectively:
acctwtmp ``uname'' >> /etc/wtmp
acctwtmp ``file save'' >> /etc/wtmp
Note: If you are using NFS, the yellow pages (YP) will be used to
convert user IDs to login names for those users not listed in
/etc/passwd.
FILES
/etc/passwd used for login name to user ID conversions
/usr/lib/acct holds all accounting commands listed in
Chapter 1M of this manual
/var/adm/pacct current process accounting file
/etc/wtmp login/logoff history file
SEE ALSO
acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M),
diskusg(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M), acctcom(1), acct(2), acct(4),
utmp(4).
approporiateprivilege(5).
Installing the DG/UX System, Managing the DG/UX System.
NOTE
You must have appropriate privilege to run accton. For systems
supporting the DG/UX Capability Option, appropriate privilege is
defined as having one or more specific capabilities enabled in the
effective capability set of the user. See the capdefaults(5) man
page for more information that pertains to systems with DG/UX
inforamtion security.
On systems without the DG/UX Capability Option, appropriate privilege
means that your process has an effective UID of root. See the
appropriateprivilege(5) man page for more information.
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