acctprc(8)						      System Manager's Manual							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 nonprime-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 distinguish 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 parameters are specified with the accton command, account processing 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 standard 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 produce 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.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands:  acct(8), acctcms(8), acctmerg(8), runacct(8)

       Functions: acct(2) delim off

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