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NAME
acctcom - search and print process accounting file(s)
SYNOPSIS
acctcom [[options][file]] . . .
DESCRIPTION
acctcom reads file, the standard input, or /usr/adm/pacct,
in the form described by acct(4) and writes selected records
to the standard output. Each record represents the
execution of one process. The output shows the COMMAND
NAME, USER, TTYNAME, START TIME, END TIME, REAL (SEC), CPU
(SEC), MEAN SIZE(K), and optionally, F (the fork/exec flag:
1 for fork without exec), STAT (the system exit status), HOG
FACTOR, KCORE MIN, CPU FACTOR, CHARS TRNSFD, and BLOCKS READ
(total blocks read and written).
A # is prepended to the command name if the command was
executed with superuser privileges. If a process is not
associated with a known terminal, a ? is printed in the
TTYNAME field.
If no files are specified, and if the standard input is
associated with a terminal or /dev/null (as is the case when
using & in the shell), /usr/adm/pacct is read; otherwise,
the standard input is read.
If any file arguments are given, they are read in their
respective order. Each file is normally read forward, i.e.,
in chronological order by process completion time. The file
/usr/adm/pacct is usually the current file to be examined; a
busy system may need several such files of which all but the
current file are found in /usr/adm/pacct. The options are:
-a Show some average statistics about the processes
selected. The statistics will be printed after
the output records.
-b Read backwards, showing latest commands first.
This option has no effect when the standard
input is read.
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-f Print the fork/exec flag and system exit status
columns in the output. The numeric output for
this option will be in octal.
-h Instead of mean memory size, show the fraction
of total available CPU time consumed by the
process during its execution. This "hog factor"
is computed as:
(total CPU time)/(elapsed time).
-i Print columns containing the I/O counts in the
output.
-k Instead of memory size, show total kcore-
minutes.
-m Show mean core size (the default).
-r Show CPU factor (user time/(system-time + user-
time).
-t Show separate system and user CPU times.
-v Exclude column headings from the output.
-l line Show only processes belonging to terminal
/dev/line.
-u user Show only processes belonging to user that may
be specified by: a user ID, a login name that is
then converted to a user ID, a # (which
designates only those processes executed with
superuser privileges), or a ? (which designates
only those processes associated with unknown
user IDs). Remember that the # or the ?
character is enclosed within apostrophes or
quotation marks or preceded by a backslash.
-g group Show only processes belonging to group. The
group may be designated by either the group ID
or group name.
-s time Select processes ending at or after time, given
in the format hr[:min[:sec]].
-e time Select processes starting at or before time.
-S time Select processes starting at or after time.
-E time Select processes ending at or before time.
Using the same time for both -S and -E shows the
processes that existed at time.
-n pattern Show only commands matching pattern that may be
a regular expression as in ed(1) except that +
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means one or more occurrences.
-q Do not print any output records, just print the
average statistics as with the -a option.
-o ofile Copy selected process records in the input data
format to ofile; suppress standard output
printing.
-H factor Show only processes that exceed factor, where
factor is the "hog factor" as explained in
option -h above.
-O sec Show only processes with CPU system time
exceeding sec seconds.
-C sec Show only processes with total CPU time, system
plus user, exceeding sec seconds.
-I chars Show only processes transferring more characters
than the cutoff number given by chars.
FILES
/etc/passwd
/usr/adm/pacct
/etc/group
SEE ALSO
ps(1), su(1)
acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4) in the Programmer's Reference
Manual
acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M),
acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M) in the
System Administrator's Reference Manual
BUGS
acctcom reports only on processes that have terminated; use
ps(1) for active processes. If time exceeds the present
time, then time is interpreted as occurring on the previous
day.
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