ACCTSH(1M) RISC/os Reference Manual ACCTSH(1M)
NAME
chargefee, ckpacct, dodisk, lastlogin, monacct, nulladm,
prctmp, prdaily, prtacct, runacct, shutacct, startup,
turnacct - shell procedures for accounting
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/chargefee login-name number
/usr/lib/acct/ckpacct [blocks]
/usr/lib/acct/dodisk [-o] [files...]
/usr/lib/acct/lastlogin
/usr/lib/acct/monacct number
/usr/lib/acct/nulladm file
/usr/lib/acct/prctmp
/usr/lib/acct/prdaily [-1] [-c] [mmdd
/usr/lib/acct/prtacct file ["heading"]
/usr/lib/acct/runacct [mmdd] [mmdd state]
/usr/lib/acct/shutacct ["reason"]
/usr/lib/acct/startup
/usr/lib/acct/turnacct on | off | switch
DESCRIPTION
chargefee can be invoked to charge a number of units to
login-name. A record is written to /usr/adm/fee, to be
merged with other accounting records during the night.
ckpacct should be initiated via cron(1M). It periodically
checks the size of /usr/adm/pacct. If the size exceeds
blocks, 1000 by default, turnacct will be invoked with argu-
ment switch. If the number of free disk blocks in the /usr
file system falls below 500, ckpacct will automatically turn
off the collection of process accounting records via the off
argument to turnacct. When at least this number of blocks
is restored, the accounting will be activated again. This
feature is sensitive to the frequency at which ckpacct is
executed, usually by cron.
dodisk should be invoked by cron to perform the disk
accounting functions. By default, it will do disk accounting
on the special files in /etc/fstab. If the -o flag is used,
it will do a slower version of disk accounting by login
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directory. files specifies the one or more filesystem names
where disk accounting will be done. If files are used, disk
accounting will be done on these filesystems only. If the
-o flag is used, files should be mount points of mounted
filesystems. If omitted, they should be the special file
names of mountable filesystems.
lastlogin is invoked by runacct to update
/usr/adm/acct/sum/loginlog, which shows the last date on
which each person logged in.
monacct should be invoked once each month or each accounting
period. number indicates which month or period it is. If
number is not given, it defaults to the current month (01 -
12). This default is useful if monacct is to be executed via
cron(1M) on the first day of each month. monacct creates
summary files in /usr/adm/acct/fiscal and restarts summary
files in /usr/adm/acct/sum.
nulladm creates file with mode 664 and ensures that owner
and group are adm. It is called by various accounting shell
procedures.
prctmp can be used to print the session record file (nor-
mally /usr/adm/acct/nite/ctmp created by acctcon(1M).
prdaily is invoked by runacct to format a report of the pre-
vious day's accounting data. The report resides in
/usr/adm/acct/sum/rprt mmdd where mmdd is the month and day
of the report. The current daily accounting reports may be
printed by typing prdaily. Previous days' accounting
reports can be printed by using the mmdd option and specify-
ing the exact report date desired. The -l flag prints a
report of exceptional usage by login id for the specified
date. Previous daily reports are cleaned up and therefore
inaccessible after each invocation of monacct. The -c flag
prints a report of exceptional resource usage by command,
and may be used on current day's accounting data only.
prtacct can be used to format and print any total accounting
(tacct) file.
runacct performs the accumulation of connect, process, fee,
and disk accounting on a daily basis. It also creates sum-
maries of command usage. For more information, see
runacct(1M).
shutacct is invoked during a system shutdown to turn process
accounting off and append a "reason" record to /etc/wtmp.
startup can be called to turn the accounting on when the
system is brought to a multi-user state. turnacct is an
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interface to accton (see acct(1M)) to turn process account-
ing on or off. The switch argument turns accounting off,
moves the current /usr/adm/pacct to the next free name in
/usr/adm/pacctincr (where incr is a number starting with 1
and incrementing by one for each additional pacct file),
then turns accounting back on again. This procedure is
called by ckpacct and thus can be taken care of by the cron
and used to keep pacct to a reasonable size. acct starts and
stops process accounting via init and shutdown accordingly.
FILES
/usr/adm/fee accumulator for fees
/usr/adm/pacct current file for per-process
accounting
/usr/adm/pacct* used if pacct gets large and during
execution of daily accounting pro-
cedure
/etc/wtmp login/logoff summary
/usr/lib/acct/ptelus.awk contains the limits for exceptional
usage by login id
/usr/lib/acct/ptecms.awk contains the limits for exceptional
usage by command name
/usr/adm/acct/nite working directory
/usr/lib/acct holds all accounting commands
listed in sub-class (1M) of this
manual
/usr/adm/acct/sum summary directory, should be saved
SEE ALSO
acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M),
acctprc(1M), cron(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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