accton(8) [osx man page]

ACCTON(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 ACCTON(8)

NAME

     accton -- enable/disable system accounting

SYNOPSIS

     accton [acctfile]

DESCRIPTION

     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.

FILES

     /var/account/acct	default accounting file

SEE ALSO

     lastcomm(1), acct(2), acct(5), sa(8)

BSD
								   May 21, 1993 							       BSD

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NAME

       dump-acct - print an acct/pacct file in human-readable format

SYNOPSIS

       dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [--byte-swap] [--format] [--ahz freq] [-h|--help] [files]

DESCRIPTION

       The  dump-acct  command	transforms  the output file from the accton format to the human-readable format: one record per line.  Each record
       consists of severald fields which are separated by character "|" (the meaning of concreate field depends on the version of kernel package -
       with which the accton file was created).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -r, --reverse
	      Print the output in reverse order.

       -R, --raw
	      The records will be printed without any parsing.

       -n, --num NUMRECS
	      Display only the first NUMRECS number of records.

       --byteswap
	      Swap the bytes (relative to your system's native byte order) in --raw output.

       --format
	      Set output format with --raw option.

       --ahz FREQ
	      Set the AHZ (platform dependent frequency in Hertz) to FREQ.

       -h, --help
	      Print a help message and the default location of the process accounting file and exit.

SEE ALSO

       accton (8), lastcomm (1)

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