UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Afternoon all, hopefully someone can give me a hand with this (the following may be explained very poorly )

I know there's a process running on one of our Solaris 10 boxes that runs approximately every 5 minutes. Unfortunately I've no idea, who owns it, what it is called, or how it is being called.

I know the users that it defintely isn't being called as, so a ps -ef would return enough info for me to find it, but only if I was constanly polling it for 5 minutes and managed to spot the process in the second or so it ran for - which is highly unlikely.

Is anyone aware of a way of viewing all process that have run in the last x minutes, not just ones that are currently running? Or can anyone think of a better solution?

Thanks.

Accounting would help a lot

start with the manpage

Code:

man -s 1M acct

for an overview - there is also a shell script: acctsh (1M) that kind of brings accounting features together for you.

Hi, I've never heard of acct. I'm away from work for a few days, but I'll have a look into that when I get back.

Thanks.