149364d3cSMike Pritchard.\" 2681e5e7aSSteve Price.Dd May 21, 1993 3ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Dt ACCTON 8 4ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Os 5ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Sh NAME 6ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Nm accton 7ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Nd enable/disable system accounting 8ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Sh SYNOPSIS 9e97407b4SRuslan Ermilov.Nm 10ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Op Ar acctfile 11ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Sh DESCRIPTION 12ee3704e4SMike PritchardThe 13ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Nm 14490d5836SPhilippe Charnierutility is used 15ee3704e4SMike Pritchardfor switching system accounting on or off. 16ee3704e4SMike PritchardIf called with the argument 17ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Ar acctfile , 1897494ccfSChristian Brueffersystem accounting is enabled. 1997494ccfSChristian BruefferThe 2097494ccfSChristian Brueffer.Ar acctfile 2197494ccfSChristian Bruefferspecified must exist prior to starting system accounting, or 2297494ccfSChristian Brueffer.Nm 2397494ccfSChristian Bruefferwill return an error. 2497494ccfSChristian BruefferA record of every process that is started by the 25ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Xr execve 2 26ee3704e4SMike Pritchardsystem call and then later exits the system is stored in 27ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Ar acctfile . 28ee3704e4SMike PritchardThe 29ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Xr sa 8 30053d075aSGiorgos Keramidascommand may be used to examine the accounting records. 317d843d6aSDima DorfmanIf no arguments are given, system accounting is disabled. 32ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Sh FILES 33ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Bl -tag -width /var/account/acct 34ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.It Pa /var/account/acct 35d8724a3aSPhilippe Charnierdefault accounting file 36ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.El 37ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Sh SEE ALSO 38ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Xr lastcomm 1 , 39ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Xr acct 2 , 4097494ccfSChristian Brueffer.Xr acct 5 , 41ee3704e4SMike Pritchard.Xr sa 8 42