ACCTSH(1M) INTERACTIVE UNIX System ACCTSH(1M)
NAME
acctsh: chargefee, ckpacct, dodisk, lastlogin, monacct, nul-
ladm, prctmp, prdaily, prtacct, runacct, shutacct, startup,
turnacct - shell procedures for accounting
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/chargefee login-name number
/usr/lib/acct/ckpacct [blocks]
/usr/lib/acct/dodisk [-o] [files ...]
/usr/lib/acct/lastlogin
/usr/lib/acct/monacct number
/usr/lib/acct/nulladm file
/usr/lib/acct/prctmp
/usr/lib/acct/prdaily [-l] [-c] [ mmdd ]
/usr/lib/acct/prtacct file [ "heading" ]
/usr/lib/acct/runacct [mmdd] [mmdd state]
/usr/lib/acct/shutacct [ "reason" ]
/usr/lib/acct/startup
/usr/lib/acct/turnacct on | off | switch
DESCRIPTION
chargefee can be invoked to charge a number of units to
login-name. A record is written to /usr/adm/fee to be
merged with other accounting records during the night.
ckpacct should be initiated via cron(1M). It periodically
checks the size of /usr/adm/pacct. If the size exceeds
blocks, 1000 by default, turnacct will be invoked with argu-
ment switch. If the number of free disk blocks in the /usr
file system falls below 500, ckpacct will automatically turn
off the collection of process accounting records via the off
argument to turnacct. When at least this number of blocks
is restored, the accounting will be activated again. This
feature is sensitive to the frequency at which ckpacct is
executed, usually by cron.
dodisk should be invoked by cron to perform the disk
accounting functions. By default, it will do disk account-
ing on the special files in /etc/fstab. If the -o flag is
used, it will do a slower version of disk accounting by
login directory. Files specify the one or more file system
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names where disk accounting will be done. If files are
used, disk accounting will be done on these file systems
only. If the -o flag is used, files should be mount points
of mounted file system. If omitted, they should be the spe-
cial file names of mountable file systems.
lastlogin is invoked by runacct to update
/usr/adm/acct/sum/loginlog, which shows the last date on
which each person logged in.
monacct should be invoked once each month or each accounting
period. Number indicates which month or period it is. If
number is not given, it defaults to the current month
(01-12). This default is useful if monacct is to executed
via cron(1M) on the first day of each month. monacct
creates summary files in /usr/adm/acct/fiscal and restarts
summary files in /usr/adm/acct/sum.
nulladm creates file with mode 664 and ensures that owner
and group are adm. It is called by various accounting shell
procedures.
prctmp can be used to print the session record file (nor-
mally /usr/adm/acct/nite/ctmp created by acctcon(1M).
prdaily is invoked by runacct to format a report of the pre-
vious day's accounting data. The report resides in
/usr/adm/acct/sum/rprtmmdd where mmdd is the month and day
of the report. The current daily accounting reports may be
printed by typing prdaily. Previous days' accounting
reports can be printed by using the mmdd option and specify-
ing the exact report date desired. The -l flag prints a
report of exceptional usage by login id for the specified
date. Previous daily reports are cleaned up and therefore
inaccessible after each invocation of monacct. The -c flag
prints a report of exceptional resource usage by command,
and may be used on current day's accounting data only.
prtacct can be used to format and print any total accounting
(tacct) file.
runacct performs the accumulation of connect, process, fee,
and disk accounting on a daily basis. It also creates sum-
maries of command usage. For more information, see
runacct(1M).
shutacct is invoked during a system shutdown to turn process
accounting off and append a ``reason'' record to /etc/wtmp.
startup is called by /etc/init.d/acct to turn the accounting
on whenever the system is brought to a multiuser state.
turnacct is an interface to accton [see acct(1M)] to turn
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process accounting on or off. The switch argument turns
accounting off, moves the current /usr/adm/pacct to the next
free name in /usr/adm/pacctincr (where incr is a number
starting with 1 and incrementing by one for each additional
pacct file), then turns accounting back on again. This pro-
cedure is called by ckpacct and thus can be taken care of by
the cron and used to keep pacct to a reasonable size. acct
starts and stops process accounting via init and shutdown
accordingly.
FILES
/usr/adm/fee accumulator for fees
/usr/adm/pacct current file for per-process
accounting
/usr/adm/pacct* used if pacct gets large and dur-
ing execution of daily accounting
procedure
/etc/wtmp login/logoff summary
/usr/lib/acct/ptelus.awk contains the limits for excep-
tional usage by login id
/usr/lib/acct/ptecms.awk contains the limits for excep-
tional usage by command name
/usr/adm/acct/nite working directory
/usr/lib/acct holds all accounting commands
listed in sub-class 1M of this
manual
/usr/adm/acct/sum summary directory, should be saved
SEE ALSO
acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcom(1), acctcon(1M),
acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M), cron(1M), diskusg(1M), fwtmp(1M),
runacct(1M).
acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4) in the INTERACTIVE SDS Guide and
Programmer's Reference Manual.
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