NAME¶

accton - turns process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS¶

accton

[ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION¶

accton filename turns on process accounting. If called with no arguments, it will, by default, stop process accounting.

OPTIONS¶

-V, --version

Print the version number of ac to standard output and quit.

-h, --help

Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.

FILES¶

acct

The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or pacct(5)) for further details.

AUTHOR¶

The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. The man page was adapted from the accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>.

SEE ALSO¶

acct(5), ac(8)