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acct(1M)		System Administration Commands		      acct(1M)

NAME
       acct,  acctdisk,	 acctdusg,  accton,  acctwtmp,	closewtmp, utmp2wtmp -
       overview of accounting and miscellaneous accounting commands

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/acct/acctdisk

       /usr/lib/acct/acctdusg [-u filename] [-p filename]

       /usr/lib/acct/accton [filename]

       /usr/lib/acct/acctwtmp reason filename

       /usr/lib/acct/closewtmp

       /usr/lib/acct/utmp2wtmp

DESCRIPTION
       Accounting software is structured as a set of tools (consisting of both
       C  programs  and shell procedures) that can be used to build accounting
       systems. acctsh(1M) describes the set of shell procedures built on  top
       of the C programs.

       Connect	time  accounting  is  handled  by  various programs that write
       records into /var/adm/wtmpx, as described  in  utmpx(4).	 The  programs
       described  in  acctcon(1M)  convert this file into session and charging
       records, which are then summarized by acctmerg(1M).

       Process accounting is performed by the system kernel. Upon  termination
       of  a  process,	one  record per process is written to a file (normally
       /var/adm/pacct). The programs in acctprc(1M) summarize  this  data  for
       charging purposes; acctcms(1M) is used to summarize command usage. Cur‐
       rent process data may be examined using acctcom(1).

       Process accounting records and connect time accounting records (or  any
       accounting  records in the tacct format described in acct.h(3HEAD)) can
       be merged and summarized into total accounting records by acctmerg (see
       tacct  format  in  acct.h(3HEAD)).  prtacct (see acctsh(1M)) is used to
       format any or all accounting records.

       acctdisk reads lines that contain user ID, login name,  and  number  of
       disk  blocks  and converts them to total accounting records that can be
       merged with other accounting records. acctdisk returns an error if  the
       input file is corrupt or improperly formatted.

       acctdusg reads its standard input (usually from find / -print) and com‐
       putes disk resource consumption (including indirect blocks) by login.

       accton without arguments turns process accounting off. If  filename  is
       given,  it  must	 be  the name of an existing file, to which the kernel
       appends process accounting records (see acct(2) and acct.h(3HEAD)).

       acctwtmp writes a utmpx(4) record to filename. The record contains  the
       current	time  and  a  string of characters that describe the reason. A
       record type of ACCOUNTING is assigned (see utmpx(4)) reason must	 be  a
       string  of  11 or fewer characters, numbers, $, or spaces. For example,
       the following are suggestions for use in	 reboot	 and  shutdown	proce‐
       dures, respectively:

	 acctwtmp "acctg on" /var/adm/wtmpx
	 acctwtmp "acctg off" /var/adm/wtmpx

       For  each user currently logged on, closewtmp puts a false DEAD_PROCESS
       record in the /var/adm/wtmpx file. runacct (see runacct(1M)) uses  this
       false DEAD_PROCESS record so that the connect accounting procedures can
       track the time used by users logged on before runacct was invoked.

       For each user currently logged on, runacct uses utmp2wtmp to create  an
       entry  in  the  file  /var/adm/wtmpx,  created  by  runacct. Entries in
       /var/adm/wtmpx enable subsequent invocations of runacct to account  for
       connect times of users currently logged in.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -u filename    Places in filename records consisting of those filenames
		      for which acctdusg charges no one	 (a  potential	source
		      for finding users trying to avoid disk charges).

       -p filename    Specifies	 a password file, filename. This option is not
		      needed if the password file is /etc/passwd.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       If any of the LC_* variables (LC_TYPE,  LC_MESSAGES,  LC_TIME,  LC_COL‐
       LATE,  LC_NUMERIC, and LC_MONETARY) (see environ(5)) are not set in the
       environment, the operational behavior of acct  for  each	 corresponding
       locale  category	 is  determined	 by  the value of the LANG environment
       variable. If LC_ALL is set, its contents are used to override both  the
       LANG  and  the other LC_* variables. If none of the above variables are
       set in the environment, the "C" (U.S. style) locale determines how acct
       behaves.

       LC_CTYPE	   Determines  how  acct  handles characters. When LC_CTYPE is
		   set to a valid value, acct can display and handle text  and
		   filenames containing valid characters for that locale. acct
		   can display and handle Extended Unix Code (EUC)  characters
		   where any  character can be 1, 2, or 3 bytes wide. acct can
		   also handle EUC characters of 1, 2, or more column  widths.
		   In  the  "C"	 locale,  only	characters from ISO 8859-1 are
		   valid.

       LC_TIME	   Determines how acct handles date and time formats.  In  the
		   "C" locale, date and time handling follows the U.S. rules.

FILES
       /etc/passwd	 Used for login name to user ID conversions.

       /usr/lib/acct	 Holds	all accounting commands listed in sub-class 1M
			 of this manual.

       /var/adm/pacct	 Current process accounting file.

       /var/adm/wtmpx	 History of user access	 and  administration  informa‐
			 tion..

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

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

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

SunOS 5.11			  22 Feb 1999			      acct(1M)
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