NAME
accton —
enable/disable system
accounting
SYNOPSIS
accton |
[acctfile] |
DESCRIPTION
The accton utility is used for switching
system accounting on or off. If called with the argument
acctfile, system accounting is enabled. The
acctfile specified must exist prior to starting system
accounting, or accton will return an error. A record
of every process that is started by the
execve(2)
system call and then later exits the system is stored in
acctfile. The
sa(8) command may
be used to examine the accounting records. If no arguments are given, system
accounting is disabled.
FILES
- /var/account/acct
- default accounting file