acctprc1, acctprc2, accton - Perform process-accounting
procedures
acctprc1 [InFile]
acctprc2
accton [OutFile]
The three acctprc commands, acctprc1, acctprc2, and accton,
are used in the runacct shell procedure to produce
process-accounting reports.
acctprc1 [InFile]
The acctprc1 command is used to read records from standard
input that are in a format defined by the acct structure
in the /usr/include/sys/acct.h header file. This process
adds the login names that correspond to user IDs, and then
writes corresponding ASCII records to standard output.
For each process, the record format includes the following
seven unheaded columns: The user ID column includes both
traditional and assigned user identification numbers
listed in the /etc/passwd file. The login name is the one
used for the user ID in the /etc/passwd file. The number
of seconds the process consumed when executed during
prime-time hours. Prime-time and nonprime-time hours are
defined in the /usr/sbin/acct/holidays file. The number
of seconds the process consumed when executed during nonprime-time
hours. Total number of characters transferred.
Total number of blocks read and written. Mean memory size
(in kilobyte units).
When specified, InFile contains a list of login sessions
in a format defined by the utmp structure in the
/usr/include/utmp.h header file. The login session records
are sorted according to user ID and login name. When
InFile is not specified, acctprc1 gets login names from
the password file /etc/passwd. The information in InFile
is used to distinguish different login names that share
the same user ID.
acctprc2
The acctprc2 command reads, from standard input, the
records written by acctprc1, summarizes them according to
user ID and name, and writes sorted summaries to standard
output as total accounting records in the tacct format
(see the acctmerg command).
accton [OutFile]
When no operands are specified with the accton command,
account processing is turned off. When you specify an
existing OutFile file, process accounting is turned on,
and the kernel adds records to that file. You must specify
an Outfile to start process accounting. Many shell script
procedures expect the file name /var/adm/pacct, the standard
process-accounting file.
To add a user name to each process-accounting record in a
binary file and then write these modified binary-file
records to an ASCII file named out.file, enter the following
line to an accounting shell script:
/usr/sbin/acct/acctprc1 < /var/adm/pacct >out.file
A user name is added to each record. The raw data
in the pacct file is converted to ASCII and added
to file out.file. To produce a total binary
accounting record of the ASCII output file out.file
produced in example 1, enter the following line to
an accounting shell script: /usr/sbin/acct/acctprc2
< out.file > /var/adm/acct/nite/daytacct
The resulting binary total accounting file, written
in the acct format, contains records sorted by user
ID. This sorted user ID file, is usually merged
with other total accounting records when an acctmerg
command is processed to produce a daily summary
accounting record called
/var/adm/acct/sum/daytacct. To turn on process
accounting, enter: /usr/sbin/acct/accton
/var/adm/pacct
To turn off process accounting, enter:
/usr/sbin/acct/accton
Specifies the command path. Specifies the command path.
Specifies the command path.
Commands: acct(8), acctcms(8), acctmerg(8), runacct(8)
Functions: acct(2)
acctprc(8)
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