acctcom(1M)                                                     acctcom(1M)




 NAME    [Toc]    [Back]
      acctcom - search and print process accounting files

 SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]
      /usr/sbin/acct/acctcom [[option]... [file]] ...

 DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]
      The acctcom command reads file, standard input, or /var/adm/pacct, in
      the form described in acct(4) and writes selected records to standard
      output.  Each record represents the execution of one process.  The
      output has the following column titles:

           COMMAND NAME    [Toc]    [Back]
           USER
           TTYNAME
           START TIME
           END TIME
           REAL (SECS)
           CPU (SECS)
           MEAN SIZE(K)

      Optionally, the following can be displayed:

           F                   fork()/exec() flag: 1 for fork() without
                               exec()
           STAT                System exit status
           HOG FACTOR
           KCORE MIN
           CPU FACTOR
           CHARS TRNSFD
           BLOCKS READ         Total blocks read and written
           PRMID               PRM process resource group ID

      The command name is preceded by a # if a privileged user is required
      to execute the command.

      For example, if a user is logged in as root, and executes the date
      command to check the time, this does not require a privileged user,
      and will be shown by acctcom without the # character on the line.  If
      the user executes the command date 0731180092 to set the time, this
      requires a privileged user, and so will be marked with a # by acctcom.

      If a process is not associated with a known terminal, a ?  is printed
      in the TTYNAME field.

      The system exit status STAT is 0 if the process terminated by calling
      exit.  If it is not 0, it is the signal number that caused the process
      to terminate.  If a core file image was produced as a result of the
      signal (see signal(5)), the value is the signal number plus 0200.





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      If no files are specified, and if standard input is associated with a
      terminal or /dev/null (as is the case when using & in a shell),
      acctcom reads /var/adm/pacct.  Otherwise, it reads standard input.

      If any file arguments are given, they are read in their respective
      order.  Each file is normally read forward, that is, in chronological
      order by process-completion time.  The file /var/adm/pacct is usually
      the current file to be examined.  A busy system may need several such
      files of which all but the current file are found in
      /var/adm/pacct[1-9].

    Options    [Toc]    [Back]
      acctcom recognizes the following values for the option argument.
      Listing options together has the effect of a logical AND.

           -a             Show some average statistics about the processes
                          selected.  Statistics are printed after the output
                          records.

           -b             Read backwards, showing latest commands first.
                          This option has no effect when standard input is
                          read.

           -f             Print in octal the F flag and system exit status
                          columns in the output.

           -h             Instead of mean memory size, MEAN SIZE(K), show
                          the fraction of total available CPU time consumed
                          by the process during its execution.  This HOG
                          FACTOR is computed as:

                               total-CPU-time/elapsed-time

           -i             Print columns containing the I/O counts in the
                          output.

           -k             Instead of memory size, show total kcore-minutes.

           -m             Show mean core size (the default).

           -P             Show the PRM process resource group ID (PRMID) of
                          each process.  See DEPENDENCIES.

           -r             Show CPU factor:

                               user-time/(system-time+user-time)

           -t             Show separate system and user CPU times.

           -v             Exclude column headings from the output.




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           -l line        Show only processes belonging to terminal
                          /dev/line.

           -u user        Show only processes belonging to user, specified
                          as: a user ID, a login name that is then converted
                          to a user ID, a # which designates only those
                          processes executed by a privileged user, or ?
                          which designates only those processes associated
                          with unknown user IDs.  The # and ?  characters
                          should be preceded by a backslash (\) and typed as
                          \# and \?  to prevent the shell from interpreting
                          the # as the start of a comment, or the ?  as a
                          pattern.

           -g group       Show only processes belonging to group, specified
                          as either the group ID or group name.

           -s time        Select processes existing at or after time, given
                          in the format:

                               hour[:minute[:second]]

           -e time        Select processes existing at or before time; see
                          -s.

                          Using the same time for both -s and -e shows the
                          processes that existed at time; see -s.

           -S time        Select processes starting at or after time; see
                          -s.

           -E time        Select processes ending at or before time; see -s.

           -n pattern     Show only commands matching pattern, where pattern
                          is a regular expression as in ed(1) except that +
                          means one or more occurrences.

           -q             Do not print any output records.  Just print the
                          average statistics as with the -a option.

           -o ofile       Copy selected process records in the input data
                          format to ofile.  Suppress standard output
                          printing.

           -H factor      Show only processes that exceed factor, where
                          factor is the "hog factor" as explained in option
                          -h.

           -O time        Show only those processes with operating system
                          CPU time exceeding time; see -s.




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 acctcom(1M)                                                     acctcom(1M)




           -C sec         Show only processes with total CPU time, system
                          plus user, exceeding sec seconds.

           -I chars       Show only processes transferring more characters
                          than the cut-off number given by chars.

           -R prmgroup    Show only processes belonging to process resource
                          group prmgroup, specified as either process
                          resource group name or ID number.  See
                          DEPENDENCIES.

 WARNINGS    [Toc]    [Back]
      acctcom only reports on processes that have terminated.  For active
      processes, use the ps command (see ps(1)).

      If time exceeds the current system clock time, time is interpreted as
      occurring on the previous day.

      The accounting flag is not cleared when one processes exec's another,
      but only when one process forks another.  One side-effect of this is
      that some processes will be marked with #, when users do not expect
      them to be.

      For example, the login command requires a privileged user to assume
      the identity of the user who is logging-in, setting the ASU bit in the
      accounting flag (which ultimately causes the # symbol in the acctcom
      output).  After assuming the user's identity, login exec's the user's
      shell.  Since the exec does not clear the ASU flag, the shell will
      inherit it, and be marked with a # in the acctcom output.

      The mean memory size may overflow for values greater than MAXINT.

 DEPENDENCIES    [Toc]    [Back]
    HP Process Resource Manager
      The -P and -R options require the optional HP Process Resource Manager
      (PRM) software to be installed and configured.  See prmconfig(1) for a
      description of how to configure HP PRM, and prmconf(4) for the
      definition of process resource group.

 FILES    [Toc]    [Back]
      /etc/group
      /etc/passwd
      /var/adm/pacct

 SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]
      ps(1), su(1), acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M),
      acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M), acct(2), wait(2),
      acct(4), utmp(4), signal(5).

      HP Process Resource Manager: prmconfig(1), prmconf(4) in HP Process
      Resource Manager User's Guide.



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


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