netbsd man page for accton

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

NAME
     accton -- enable/disable system accounting

SYNOPSIS
     accton [file]

DESCRIPTION
     With an argument naming an existing file, accton causes system accounting information for every process executed to be placed at the end of
     the file.	If no argument is given, accounting is turned off.

     The default accounting file is /var/account/acct.	Typically, accounting is enabled by rc scripts during the boot process.  In NetBSD, one
     may enable accounting by setting the variable ``accounting'' to ``YES'' in /etc/rc.conf.

     Note that, traditionally, the system accounting log file can not be rotated cleanly by newsyslog(8).  Instead, a default installation of
     NetBSD rotates /var/account/acct using the /etc/daily script.

FILES
     /var/account/acct	Default accounting file.

SEE ALSO
     lastcomm(1), acct(5), sa(8)

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								 January 23, 2008							       BSD