acct(1M)                                                           acct(1M)




 NAME    [Toc]    [Back]
      acctdisk, acctdusg, accton, acctwtmp, closewtmp, utmp2wtmp - overview
      of accounting and miscellaneous accounting commands

 SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]
      /usr/sbin/acct/acctdisk

      /usr/sbin/acct/acctdusg [-u file] [-p file]

      /usr/sbin/acct/accton [file]

      /usr/sbin/acct/acctwtmp [-X] reason

      /usr/sbin/acct/closewtmp

      /usr/sbin/acct/utmp2wtmp

 DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]
      Accounting software is structured as a set of tools (consisting of
      both C programs and shell procedures) that can be used to build
      accounting systems.  The shell procedures, described in acctsh(1M),
      are built on top of the C programs.

      Connect time accounting is handled by various programs that write
      records into the utmps database.  The programs described in
      acctcon(1M) convert this file into session and charging records which
      are then summarized by acctmerg (see acctmerg(1M)).

      Process accounting is performed by the HP-UX system kernel.  Upon
      termination of a process, one record per process is written to a file
      (normally /var/adm/pacct).  The programs in acctprc(1M) summarize this
      data for charging purposes; acctcms is used to summarize command usage
      (see acctcms(1M)).  Current process data can be examined using acctcom
      (see acctcom(1M)).

      Process accounting and connect time accounting (or any accounting
      records in the format described in acct(4)) can be merged and
      summarized into total accounting records by acctmerg (see tacct format
      in acct(4)).  prtacct is used to format any or all accounting records
      (see acctsh(1M)).

      acctdisk reads lines that contain user ID, login name, and number of
      disk blocks, and converts them to total accounting records that can be
      merged with other accounting records.

      acctdusg reads its standard input (usually from find -print) and
      computes disk resource consumption (including indirect blocks) by
      login.  Only files found under login directories (as determined from
      the password file) are accounted for.  All files under a login
      directory are assumed to belong to that user regardless of actual
      owner.  If -u is given, records consisting of those file names for



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      which acctdusg charges no one are placed in file (a potential source
      for finding users trying to avoid disk charges).  If -p is given, file
      is the name of the password file.  This option is not needed if the
      password file is /etc/passwd.  (See diskusg(1M) for more details.)

      accton turns process accounting off if the optional file argument is
      omitted.  If file is given, it must be the name of an existing file,
      to which the kernel appends process accounting records (see acct(2)
      and acct(4)).

      acctwtmp writes a utmp record to its standard output if the -X option
      is not used.  If the -X option is used, acctwtmp writes a wtmps-like
      record to stdout.  The record contains the current time and a string
      of characters that describe the reason for writing the record.  A
      record type of ACCOUNTING is assigned (see utmp(4) and utmps(4)).  The
      string argument reason must be 11 or fewer characters, numbers, $, or
      spaces if -X option is not used.  Otherwise, it must be 63 or fewer
      characters, numbers, $, or spaces.  For example, the following are
      suggestions for use in reboot and shutdown procedures, respectively:

           acctwtmp `uname` >> /var/adm/wtmp

           acctwtmp "file save" >> /var/adm/wtmp

           acctwtmp -X `uname` >> /var/adm/wtmps

           acctwtmp -X `uname` >> /var/adm/wtmps

      closewtmp writes a DEAD_PROCESS record, for each user currently logged
      in, to the file /var/adm/wtmps.  This program is invoked by runacct to
      close the existing wtmp file before creating a new one.

      utmp2wtmp writes a USER_PROCESS record, for each user currently logged
      in, to the file /var/adm/wtmps.  This program is invoked by runacct to
      initialize the newly created wtmps file.

 FILES    [Toc]    [Back]
      /usr/sbin/acct                Holds all accounting commands listed in
                                    section (1M) of this manual.

      /var/adm/pacct                Current process accounting file.

      /etc/passwd                   Used for converting login name to user
                                    ID

      /var/adm/wtmp                 Login/logoff history file.

      /var/adm/wtmps                New login/logoff history database.

 SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]
      acctcms(1M), acctcom(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M),



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      acctsh(1M), diskusg(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M), acct(2), acct(4),
      utmp(4).  utmps(4), wtmps(4).

 STANDARDS CONFORMANCE    [Toc]    [Back]
      acctdisk: SVID2, SVID3

      accton: SVID2, SVID3

      acctwtmp: SVID2, SVID3


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