Can I gzip or delete pacct files in solaris ? - SUN Solaris

neel.gurjar · #1 (**permalink**) 06-01-2007

Hi,

On my server there are so many pacct files in /var/adm. It is eating up my /var partition. Can I delete or gzip those files ?

Thanks
NeeleshG

ghostdog74 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-01-2007

you can look for the turnacct command. think its like this

Code:

/usr/lib/acct/turnacct switch; /bin/rm -f /var/adm/pacct?

fine tune it according to your environment, then put in the cron.

sysgate · #3 (**permalink**) 06-01-2007

When a process ends, the kernel writes one record per process, in the form of acct.h, in the /var/adm/pacct file, so yes, you may delete them.

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