accton
—
enable/disable system accounting
The accton
utility is used for switching system
accounting on or off. If called with the argument
acctfile, system accounting is enabled. The
acctfile specified must exist prior to starting system
accounting, or accton
will return an error. A record
of every process that is started by the
execve(2)
system call and then later exits the system is stored in
acctfile. The
sa(8) command
may be used to examine the accounting records. If no arguments are given,
system accounting is disabled.
- /var/account/acct
- default accounting file