acctcon(1M)                                              acctcon(1M)


       NAME
             acctcon, acctcon1, acctcon2 - connect-time accounting

       SYNOPSIS
             /usr/lib/acct/acctcon [options]
             /usr/lib/acct/acctcon1 [options]
             /usr/lib/acct/acctcon2

       DESCRIPTION
             acctcon converts a sequence of login/logoff records to total
             accounting records [see the tacct format in acct(4)].
             login/logoff records are read from standard input.  The file
             /var/adm/wtmp is usually the source of the login/logoff
             records, however, because it may contain corrupted records or
             system date changes, it should first be fixed using wtmpfix.
             The fixed version of file /var/adm/wtmp can then be redirected
             to acctcon.  The tacct records are written to standard output.
             Here are the options for acctcon:

             -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 and termination of the
                       login shell each generate logoff records, so that
                       the number of logoffs is 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.

             acctcon is a combination of the programs acctcon1 and
             acctcon2.  acctcon1 converts login/logoff records, taken from
             the fixed /var/adm/wtmp file, to ASCII output.  acctcon2 reads
             the ASCII records produced by acctcon1 and converts them to
             tacct records.  acctcon1 can be used with the -l and -o
             options, described above, as well as with the following
             options:

             -p   Print input only, showing line name, login name, and time
                  (in both numeric and date/time formats).




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      acctcon(1M)                                              acctcon(1M)


            -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.

         FILES
            /var/adm/wtmp

      EXAMPLES
            The acctcon command is typically used as follows:
                  acctcon -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp > ctacct

            The acctcon1 and acctcon2 commands are typically used as
            follows:
                  acctcon1 -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp | sort +1n +2 > ctmp
                  acctcon2 < ctmp > ctacct

      REFERENCES
            acct(1M), acct(2), acct(4), acctcms(1M), acctcom(1),
            acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), init(1M),
            login(1), runacct(1M), utmp(4)

      NOTICES
            The line usage report is confused by date changes.  Use
            wtmpfix [see fwtmp(1M)], with the /var/adm/wtmp file as an
            argument, to correct this situation.

















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