acctcon(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       acctcon(1M)

NAME

       acctcon, acctcon1, acctcon2 - connect-time accounting

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/acct/acctcon [-l lineuse] [-o reboot]

       /usr/lib/acct/acctcon1 [-p] [-t] [-l lineuse] [-o reboot]

       /usr/lib/acct/acctcon2

DESCRIPTION

       acctcon	converts  a sequence of login/logoff records to total accounting records (see the tacct format in acct.h(3HEAD)). The login/logoff
       records are read from standard input.  The file /var/adm/wtmpx is usually the source of the login/logoff records; however, because it might
       contain corrupted records or system date changes, it should first be fixed using wtmpfix. The fixed version of file /var/adm/wtmpx can then
       be redirected to acctcon. The tacct records are written to standard output.

       acctcon is a combination of the programs acctcon1 and acctcon2. acctcon1 converts login/logoff records, taken from the fixed /var/adm/wtmpx
       file,  to ASCII output. acctcon2 reads the ASCII records produced by acctcon1 and converts them to tacct records. acctcon1 can be used with
       the -l and -o options, described below, as well as with the -p and -t options.

OPTIONS

       -p	     Print input only, showing line name, login name, and time (in both numeric and date/time formats).

       -t	     acctcon1 maintains a list of lines on which users are logged in. When it reaches the end of its input,  it  emits	a  session
		     record  for  each line that still appears to be active. It normally assumes that its input is a current file, so that it uses
		     the current time as the ending time for each session still in progress. The -t flag causes it to use, instead, the last  time
		     found in its input, thus assuring reasonable and repeatable numbers for non-current files.

       -l lineuse    lineuse  is created to contain a summary of line usage showing line name, number of minutes used, percentage of total elapsed
		     time used, number of sessions charged, number of logins, and number of logoffs.  This file helps track line  usage,  identify
		     bad  lines,  and find software and hardware oddities. Hangup, termination of login(1) and termination of the login shell each
		     generate logoff records, so that the number of logoffs is often three to four times the number of sessions. See  init(1M) and
		     utmpx(4).

       -o reboot     reboot  is filled with an overall record for the accounting period, giving starting time, ending time, number of reboots, and
		     number of date changes.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Using the acctcon command.

       The acctcon command is typically used as follows:

	 example% acctcon -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp > ctacct

       The acctcon1 and acctcon2 commands are typically used as follows:

	 example% acctcon1 -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp | sort +1n +2 > ctmp
	 example% acctcon2 < ctmp > ctacct

FILES

       /var/adm/wtmpx	 History of user access and administration information

ATTRIBUTES

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

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

SEE ALSO

       acctcom(1),  login(1),  acct(1M),  acctcms(1M),	acctmerg(1M),  acctprc(1M),  acctsh(1M),  fwtmp(1M),   init(1M),   runacct(1M),   acct(2),
       acct.h(3HEAD), utmpx(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The  line  usage  report  is confused by date changes. Use wtmpfix (see fwtmp(1M)), with the /var/adm/wtmpx file as an argument, to correct
       this situation.

       During a single invocation of any given command, the acctcon, acctcon1, and acctcon2 commands can process a maximum of:

	   o	  6000 distinct session

	   o	  1000 distinct terminal lines

	   o	  2000 distinct login names

       If at some point the actual  number of any one of these items exceeds the maximum, the command will not succeed.

SunOS 5.11							    22 Feb 1999 						       acctcon(1M)