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NAME
acctdisk, acctdusg, accton, acctwtmp - overview of account-
ing and miscellaneous accounting commands
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/acctdisk
/usr/lib/acct/acctdusg [-u file] [-p file]
/usr/lib/acct/accton [file]
/usr/lib/acct/acctwtmp reason
DESCRIPTION
Accounting software is structured as a set of tools (con-
sisting of both C programs and shell procedures) that can be
used to build accounting systems. acctsh(1M) describes the
set of shell procedures built on top of the C programs.
Connect time accounting is handled by various programs that
write records into /etc/utmp, as described in utmp(4). The
programs described in acctcon(1M) convert this file into
session and charging records, which are then summarized by
acctmerg(1M).
Process accounting is performed by the UNIX system kernel.
Upon termination of a process, one record per process is
written to a file (normally /usr/adm/pacct). The programs
in acctprc(1M) summarize this data for charging purposes;
acctcms(1M) is used to summarize command usage. Current pro-
cess data may be examined using acctcom(1).
Process accounting and connect time accounting (or any
accounting records in the format described in acct(4)) can
be merged and summarized into total accounting records by
acctmerg (see tacct format in acct(4)). prtacct (see
acctsh(1M)) is used to format any or all accounting records.
acctdisk reads lines that contain user ID, login name, and
number of disk blocks and converts them to total accounting
records that can be merged with other accounting records.
acctdusg reads its standard input (usually from find /
-print) and computes disk resource consumption (including
indirect blocks) by login. If -u is given, records consist-
ing of those filenames for which acctdusg charges no one are
placed in file (a potential source for finding users trying
to avoid disk charges). If -p is given, file is the name of
the password file. This option is not needed if the password
file is /etc/passwd. (See diskusg(1M) for more details.)
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accton alone turns process accounting off. If file is given,
it must be the name of an existing file, to which the kernel
appends process accounting records (see acct(2) and
acct(4)).
acctwtmp writes a utmp(4) record to its standard output. The
record contains the current time and a string of characters
that describe the reason. A record type of ACCOUNTING is
assigned (see utmp(4)). reason must be a string of 11 or
fewer characters, numbers, $, or spaces. For example, the
following are suggestions for use in reboot and shutdown
procedures, respectively:
acctwtmp uname >> /etc/wtmp
acctwtmp "file save" >> /etc/wtmp
FILES
/etc/passwd used for login name to user ID conver-
sions
/usr/lib/acctholds all accounting commands listed in sub-
class (1M) of this manual
/usr/adm/pacct current process accounting file
/etc/wtmp login/logoff history file
SEE ALSO
acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M),
acctsh(1M), diskusg(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M).
acctcom(1) in the User's Reference Manual.
acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4) in the Programmer's Reference
Manual.
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