NAME
accton – enable/disable system accounting
SYNOPSIS
accton [file]
DESCRIPTION
With an argument naming an existing file, accton causes system accounting information for every process executed to be placed at the end of the file. If no argument is given, accounting is turned off.
To have accton enabled at boot time, use “rcctl enable accounting”, which sets
accounting=YES
in rc.conf.local(8).
Log rotation of the default accounting file, /var/account/acct, is performed by the daily(8) maintenance script.
FILES
- /var/account/acct
-
default accounting file
EXIT STATUS
The accton utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The accton command first appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.