ACCTCON(1M) RISC/os Reference Manual ACCTCON(1M)
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 start-
ing 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 reason-
able and repeatable numbers for non-current files.
-lfile 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, ter-
mination of IR login (1) 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).
-ofile 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:
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acctcon1 -t -l lineuse -o reboots <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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