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accton(8)

Package: psacct Section: 8

ACCTON(8)

System Manager's Manual

ACCTON(8)

NAME

accton - turns process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS

accton: [OPTION] on|off|filename
accton: [ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

DESCRIPTION

accton filename turns on process accounting.

OPTIONS

-V, --version: Print the version number of ac to standard output and quit.
-h, --help: Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.
on: Turns on process accounting using the default accounting file name.
off: Turns off process accounting.

FILES

acct: The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or pacct(5)) for further details.

AUTHOR

The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <[email protected]>. The man page was adapted from the accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <[email protected]>.