UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everybody,

I'm Sun Solaris, I have problems on figuring out how i can start acct in unix. I understand how this accounting write in a file in /var/adm/wtmp. And with "acctcom -b " shows end part of all commands that were written in it. And "accton" shuts off this reporting. My question how Do I turn it on. There are so many types of accounting in unix. I just need it to report all users actions in the system with date and time. I don't need anything like cpu usage or block usage. Can anyone help??

Thanks

Peter

"accton"
will turn accounting off

cd /var/adm
"accton pacct"
will start account to the pacct file.

But these are called by the "turnacct" script. And "turnacct" is called by "startup", and "shutacct". See "man acctsh". Those are the scripts that you should be using.

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