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NAME
acctcon1, acctcon2 - connect-time accounting
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon1 [options]
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon2
DESCRIPTION
acctcon1 converts a sequence of login/logoff records read
from its standard input to a sequence of records, one per
login session. Its input should normally be redirected from
/etc/wtmp . Its output is ASCII, giving device, user ID,
login name, prime connect time (seconds), non-prime connect
time (seconds), session starting time (numeric), and
starting date and time. The options are:
-p Print input only, showing line name, login name,
and time (in both numeric and date/time formats).
-t acctcon1 maintains a list of lines on which users
are logged in. When it reaches the end of its
input, it emits a session record for each line
that still appears to be active. It normally
assumes that its input is a current file, so that
it uses the current time as the ending time for
each session still in progress. The -t flag
causes it to use, instead, the last time found in
its input, thus assuring reasonable and repeatable
numbers for non-current files.
-l file file is created to contain a summary of line usage
showing line name, number of minutes used,
percentage of total elapsed time used, number of
sessions charged, number of logins, and number of
logoffs. This file helps track line usage,
identify bad lines, and find software and hardware
oddities. Hangup, termination of login(1) and
termination of the login shell each generate
logoff records, so that the number of logoffs is
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often three to four times the number of sessions.
See init(1M) and utmp(4).
-o file file is filled with an overall record for the
accounting period, giving starting time, ending
time, number of reboots, and number of date
changes.
acctcon2 expects as input a sequence of login session
records and converts them into total accounting records [see
tacct format in acct(4)].
EXAMPLES
These commands are typically used as shown below. The file
ctmp is created only for the use of acctprc(1M) commands:
acctcon1 -t -l lineuse -o reboots </etc/wtmp | sort +1n +2
> ctmp
acctcon2 <ctmp | acctmerg > ctacct
FILES
/etc/wtmp
SEE ALSO
acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M),
acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), init(1M), runacct(1M)
acctcom(1), login(1) in the User's Reference Manual
acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4) in the Programmer's Reference
Manual
BUGS
The line usage report is confused by date changes. Use
wtmpfix [see fwtmp(1M)] to correct this situation.
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