ACCTON(8) - System Manager’s Manual #

ACCTON(8) - System Manager’s Manual

NAME #

accton - enable/disable system accounting

SYNOPSIS #

accton [file]

DESCRIPTION #

With an argument naming an existing file, accton causes system accounting information for every process executed to be placed at the end of the file. If no argument is given, accounting is turned off.

To have accton enabled at boot time, use “rcctl enable accounting”, which sets

accounting=YES

in rc.conf.local(8).

Log rotation of the default accounting file, /var/account/acct, is performed by the daily(8) maintenance script.

FILES #

/var/account/acct

default accounting file

EXIT STATUS #

The accton utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO #

lastcomm(1), acct(2), acct(5), daily(8), sa(8)

HISTORY #

The accton command first appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

OpenBSD 7.5 - November 3, 2020