acctprc(8)acctprc(8)NAME
acctprc1, acctprc2, accton - Perform process-accounting procedures
SYNOPSIS
acctprc1 [InFile]
acctprc2
accton [OutFile]
DESCRIPTION
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 non‐
prime-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 distin‐
guish 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 pro‐
cessing 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 stan‐
dard process-accounting file.
EXAMPLES
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 pro‐
duce 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
FILES
Specifies the command path. Specifies the command path. Specifies the
command path.
SEE ALSO
Commands: acct(8), acctcms(8), acctmerg(8), runacct(8)
Functions: acct(2)acctprc(8)