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Old 12-28-2010
Question PID with a log/history perspective.
Hi All,

Belated Merry Christmas.

I have a requirement, where I need to know the entire history of all the pids, the time they got forked, when they ended and by which program.

I had delved into contents of /var/log/messages, but of not much use, as it mainly houses xinetd and ntp pid details.

Please guide in this regard.

Thanks,
Dipan
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Old 12-28-2010
Process accounting can do this. It's a chore to set up. It also puts quite a load on the system since records must be written to disk for every process. It also consumes a lot of disk space but these days disk space is cheap. The reports are voluminous. I did once back in the 80's and quickly shut it down. Not too many folks run with it on.

Here is a link to some instructions on some versions of unix:
Step 1: Set up UNIX accounting

And a link for Linux:
Enabling Process Accounting on Linux HOWTO
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dipanchandra
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Old 12-29-2010
Hi Perderabo,

Thanks a ton Smilie . I will sure have a look at the "unix accounting " Smilie

Cheers !!
 
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