acct(1M)                                                 acct(1M)



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
     process 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 file names 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 charac-
     ters that describe the reason.  A record type of ACCOUNTING
     is assigned (see utmp(4)).  Reason must be a string of 11 or
     less 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 conversions
     /usr/lib/acct     holds 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),
     acct(2), acct(4), utmp(4).

     UNIX Accounting System in the CX/UX System Administration
     Manual.

























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