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2.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Simon J. Gerraty
3.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christopher G. Demetriou
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31.\"	$Id: ac.8,v 1.1.1.1 1994/05/18 08:00:45 csgr Exp $
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33.Dd March 15, 1994
34.Dt AC 8
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm ac
38.Nd connect time accounting
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm ac
41.Op Fl dp
42.\".Op Fl c Ar console
43.Op Fl t Ar tty
44.Op Fl w Ar wtmp
45.Op Ar users ...
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47If the file
48.Pa /var/log/wtmp
49exists, a record of individual login and logout
50times are written to it by
51.Xr login 8
52and
53.Xr init 8 ,
54respectively.
55.Nm \&Ac
56examines these records and writes the accumulated connect time
57for all logins to the standard output.
58.Pp
59The options are as follows:
60.Bl -tag -width indentXXX
61.It Fl d
62Display the connect times in 24 hour chunks.
63.\" .It Fl c Ar console
64.\" Use
65.\" .Ar console
66.\" as the name of the device that local X sessions (ut_host of ":0.0")
67.\" originate from.  If any login has been recorded on
68.\" .Ar console
69.\" then these X sessions are ignored unless COMPAT_SUNOS was defined at
70.\" compile time.
71.It Fl p
72Print individual users' totals.
73.It Fl t Ar tty
74Only do accounting logins on certain ttys.  The
75.Ar tty
76specification can start with '!' to indicate not this
77.Ar tty
78and end with '*' to indicate all similarly named ttys.
79Multiple
80.Fl t
81flags may be specified.
82.It Fl w Ar wtmp
83Read connect time data from
84.Ar wtmp
85instead of the default file,
86.Pa /var/log/wtmp .
87.It Ar users ...
88Display totals for the given individuals only.
89.El
90.Pp
91If no arguments are given,
92.Nm ac
93displays the total connect time for all
94accounts with login sessions recorded in
95.Pa wtmp .
96.Pp
97The default
98.Pa wtmp
99file will increase without bound unless it is truncated.
100It is normally truncated by the daily scripts run
101by
102.Xr cron 8 ,
103which rename and rotate the
104.Pa wtmp
105files, keeping a week's worth of data on
106hand.  No login or connect time accounting is performed if
107.Pa /var/log/wtmp
108does not exist.
109.Pp
110For example,
111.Bd -literal -offset
112ac -p -t "ttyd*" > modems
113ac -p -t "!ttyd*" > other
114.Ed
115.Pp
116allows times recorded in
117.Pa modems
118to be charged out at a different rate than
119.Pa other .
120.Pp
121The
122.Nm ac
123utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if a fatal error occurs.
124.Sh FILES
125.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-7] -compact
126.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
127connect time accounting file
128.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-7]
129rotated files
130.El
131.Sh SEE ALSO
132.Xr init 8 ,
133.Xr sa 8 ,
134.Xr login 1 ,
135.Xr utmp
136.\" .Sh NOTES
137.\" If COMPAT_SUNOS is defined
138.\" .Nm ac
139.\" ignores the fact that entries with ut_host of ":0.0" are not real
140.\" login sessions.  Normally such entries are ignored except in the case
141.\" of a user being logged in when the
142.\" .Pa wtmp
143.\" file was rotated, in which case a login with ut_host of ":0.0" may
144.\" appear without any preceeding console logins.
145.\" If no one is logged in on the console, the user is deemed to have
146.\" logged in on at the earliest time stamp found in
147.\" .Pa wtmp .
148.\" Use of
149.\" .Pa console
150.\" allows
151.\" .Nm ac
152.\" to identify and correcty process a logout for the user.  The default
153.\" value for
154.\" .Pa console
155.\" is usually correct at compile time.
156