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acctcon(1M)		System Administration Commands		   acctcon(1M)

NAME
       acctcon, acctcon1, acctcon2 - connect-time accounting

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/acct/acctcon [-l lineuse] [-o reboot]

       /usr/lib/acct/acctcon1 [-p] [-t] [-l lineuse] [-o reboot]

       /usr/lib/acct/acctcon2

DESCRIPTION
       acctcon converts a sequence of login/logoff records to total accounting
       records (see the	 tacct	format	in  acct.h(3HEAD)).  The  login/logoff
       records	are read from standard input.  The file /var/adm/wtmpx is usu‐
       ally the source of the login/logoff records; however, because it	 might
       contain	corrupted  records  or system date changes, it should first be
       fixed using wtmpfix. The fixed version of file /var/adm/wtmpx can  then
       be  redirected  to  acctcon.  The tacct records are written to standard
       output.

       acctcon is a combination of the programs acctcon1 and  acctcon2.	 acct‐
       con1 converts login/logoff records, taken from the fixed /var/adm/wtmpx
       file, to ASCII output. acctcon2 reads the  ASCII	 records  produced  by
       acctcon1	 and converts them to tacct records. acctcon1 can be used with
       the -l and -o options, described below, as well as with the -p  and  -t
       options.

OPTIONS
       -p	     Print input only, showing line name, login name, and time
		     (in both numeric and date/time formats).

       -t	     acctcon1 maintains a list of lines	 on  which  users  are
		     logged in. When it reaches the end of its input, it emits
		     a session record for each line that still appears	to  be
		     active.  It  normally assumes that its input is a current
		     file, so that it uses the current time as the ending time
		     for each session still in progress. The -t flag causes it
		     to use, instead, the last time found in its  input,  thus
		     assuring  reasonable  and repeatable numbers for non-cur‐
		     rent files.

       -l lineuse    lineuse is created to contain a  summary  of  line	 usage
		     showing  line name, number of minutes used, percentage of
		     total elapsed time used, number of sessions charged, num‐
		     ber  of  logins,  and number of logoffs.  This file helps
		     track line usage, identify bad lines, and	find  software
		     and  hardware  oddities.  Hangup, termination of login(1)
		     and termination of the login shell each  generate	logoff
		     records,  so that the number of logoffs is often three to
		     four times the number  of	sessions.  See	 init(1M)  and
		     utmpx(4).

       -o reboot     reboot  is filled with an overall record for the account‐
		     ing period, giving starting time, ending time, number  of
		     reboots, and number of date changes.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Using the acctcon command.

       The acctcon command is typically used as follows:

	 example% acctcon -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp > ctacct

       The acctcon1 and acctcon2 commands are typically used as follows:

	 example% acctcon1 -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp | sort +1n +2 > ctmp
	 example% acctcon2 < ctmp > ctacct

FILES
       /var/adm/wtmpx	 History of user access and administration information

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │system/accounting/legacy	   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       acctcom(1), login(1), acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M),
       acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), init(1M), runacct(1M),  acct(2),	acct.h(3HEAD),
       utmpx(4), attributes(5)

NOTES
       The  line  usage	 report	 is confused by date changes. Use wtmpfix (see
       fwtmp(1M)), with the /var/adm/wtmpx file as  an	argument,  to  correct
       this situation.

       During a single invocation of any given command, the acctcon, acctcon1,
       and acctcon2 commands can process a maximum of:

	   o	  6000 distinct session

	   o	  1000 distinct terminal lines

	   o	  2000 distinct login names

       If at some point the actual  number of any one of these	items  exceeds
       the maximum, the command will not succeed.

SunOS 5.11			  22 Feb 1999			   acctcon(1M)
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