Name
acct — execution accounting file
DESCRIPTION
If the kernel was compiled with the process accounting
option enabled, the system call
acct("/somewhere/accountingfile");
will start the process accounting. Each time a process
terminates a record for this process is appended to the
accounting file. The accounting structure struct acct is also described in
the file /usr/include/linux/acct.h.
SEE ALSO
lastcomm(1), sa(1), acct(2), accton(8)
Copyright (c) 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca)
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Version 3 format process accounting on Linux.
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