acctcom(1)							   User Commands							acctcom(1)

NAME

       acctcom - search and print process accounting files

SYNOPSIS

       acctcom	[-abfhikmqrtv]	[-C sec]  [-e time]  [-E time]	[-g group] [-H factor] [-I chars] [-l line] [-n pattern] [-o output-file] [-O sec]
       [-s time] [-S time] [-u user] [filename...]

DESCRIPTION

       The acctcom utility reads filenames, the standard input, or /var/adm/pacct, in the form described  by  acct.h(3HEAD)  and  writes  selected
       records	to  standard  output. Each record represents the execution of one process. The output shows the COMMAND NAME, USER, TTYNAME, START
       TIME, END TIME, REAL (SEC), CPU (SEC), MEAN SIZE (K), and optionally, F (the fork()/exec() flag: 1 for fork() without  exec()),	STAT  (the
       system exit status), HOG FACTOR, KCORE MIN, CPU FACTOR, CHARS TRNSFD, and  BLOCKS READ (total blocks read and written).

       A  `#' is prepended to the command name if the command was executed with super-user privileges. If a process is not associated with a known
       terminal, a  `?' is printed in the TTYNAME field.

       If no  filename is specified, and if the standard input is associated with a terminal or /dev/null (as is the case when using  `&'  in  the
       shell), /var/adm/pacct is read; otherwise, the standard input is read.

       If any filename arguments are given, they are read in their respective order. Each file is normally read forward, that is, in chronological
       order by process completion time.  The file /var/adm/pacct is usually the current file to be examined; a busy system may need several  such
       files of which all but the current file are found in /var/adm/pacctincr.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a	       Show some average statistics about the processes selected. The statistics will be printed after the output records.

       -b	       Read backwards, showing latest commands first. This option has no effect when standard input is read.

       -f	       Print  the  fork()/exec()  flag and system exit status columns in the output. The numeric output for this option will be in
		       octal.

       -h	       Instead of mean memory size, show the fraction of total available CPU time consumed by the process  during  its	execution.
		       This "hog factor" is computed as (total CPU time)/(elapsed time).

       -i	       Print columns containing the I/O counts in the output.

       -k	       Instead of memory size, show total kcore-minutes.

       -m	       Show mean core size (the default).

       -q	       Do not print any output records, just print the average statistics as with the -a option.

       -r	       Show CPU factor (user-time/(system-time + user-time)).

       -t	       Show separate system and user CPU times.

       -v	       Exclude column headings from the output.

       -C sec	       Show only processes with total CPU time (system-time + user-time) exceeding sec seconds.

       -e time	       Select processes existing at or before time.

       -E time	       Select processes ending at or before time. Using the same time for both -S and -E shows the processes that existed at time.

       -g group        Show only processes belonging to group. The group may be designated by either the group ID or group name.

       -H factor       Show only processes that exceed factor, where factor is the "hog factor" as explained in option -h above.

       -I chars        Show only processes transferring more characters than the cutoff number given by chars.

       -l line	       Show only processes belonging to terminal /dev/term/line.

       -n pattern      Show  only  commands  matching pattern that may be a regular expression as in regcmp(3C), except + means one or more occur-
		       rences.

       -o output-file  Copy selected process records in the input data format to output-file; suppress printing to standard output.

       -O sec	       Show only processes with CPU system time exceeding sec seconds.

       -s time	       Select processes existing at or after time, given in the format hr[:min[:sec]].

       -S time	       Select processes starting at or after time.

       -u user	       Show only processes belonging to user. The user may be specified by a user ID, a login name that is  then  converted  to  a
		       user  ID,   `#'	(which	designates only those processes executed with superuser privileges), or `?' (which designates only
		       those processes associated with unknown user IDs).

FILES

       /etc/group	       system group file

       /etc/passwd	       system password file

       /var/adm/pacctincr      active processes accounting file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWaccu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ps(1), acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M),  fwtmp(1M),  runacct(1M),  su(1M),  acct(2),  regcmp(3C),
       acct.h(3HEAD), utmp(4), attributes(5)

       System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

NOTES

       acctcom reports only on processes that have terminated; use ps(1) for active processes.

SunOS 5.10							    11 Jan 1996 							acctcom(1)