debian man page for dump-acct

DUMP-ACCT(8)						     GNU Accounting Utilities						      DUMP-ACCT(8)

NAME
       dump-acct - print an acct file in human-readable format.

SYNOPSIS
       dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [--format] version] [--byteswap] [--ahz] hertz] [-n|--num recs] [-h|--help] [ files]

DESCRIPTION
       dump-acct  filename  prints  a  list  of all executed processes. This list is written by the kernel which must be compiled with BSD process
       accounting enabled (Debian kernel image have it already enabled). It must be started with accton(5).  Note that on Debian systems, this	is
       ensured via the init script /etc/init.d/acct.

       All fields are separated by vertical line. Fields are: command, version, user time, system time, effective time, uid, gid, memory, io, pid,
       ppid, time.  User, system and effective times are ticks per second. One tick is usually 1/50 of a second. The time field  shows	the  start
       time of the process.

       The --raw switch, as well as the --format, --byteswap, and --ahz can be used as a handy format converter.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
	      Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.

       -n, --num recs
	      Number of lines to print.

       -r, --reverse
	      Start printing from last records.

       -R, --raw
	      Print raw records, not human-readable.

       --format version
	      Use specified format version to display records.

       --byteswap
	      Swap bytes endianness when reading records.

       --ahz  Use specified units of time to display data from other kernel versions and architectures.

FILES
       acct   The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) for further details.

SEE ALSO
       acct(5), ac(8).

AUTHOR
       The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.

       This  manual  page  was written by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> and updated by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> and Mathieu Trudel
       <mathieu.tl@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

6.4pre1 							    2006-04-22							      DUMP-ACCT(8)