accton Command accton
Enable/disable process accounting
/etc/accton [ file ]
One of the accounting mechanisms available on the COHERENT system
is process accounting, also called shell accounting. Process ac-
counting each process, who initiates it, and how long it takes to
execute.
By issuing the command accton with a file argument, you enable
process accounting. The system then writes raw accounting data
into file, which normally should be /usr/adm/acct. The command
sa summarizes the resulting raw statistics. If issued with no
argument, accton disables process accounting.
accton is normally invoked by the initialization command file
/etc/rc.
***** Files *****
/usr/adm/acct -- Raw accounting data
***** See Also *****
ac, acct, acct.h, commands, init, sa
***** Notes *****
As the file /usr/adm/acct can become very large, special care
should be taken if process accounting is enabled on a COHERENT
system with a small disk file system.
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