osx man page for accton

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)

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								   May 21, 1993 							       BSD