accton(8)

accton8

Turns process accounting on or off

Usage

accton

accton {[OPTION] on | off | filename}

accton

accton [{-V | --version}] [{-h | --help}]

Overview

accton filename turns on 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.

on

Turns on process accounting using the default accounting file name.

off

Turns off process accounting.

Files

acct

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

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 1.1–1.3
  2. 2.0–3.1
  3. 4.0–5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7–13

--help since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); --version since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); -V since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); -h since Debian 2.0 (Hamm).

Author

The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <[email protected]>. The man page was adapted from the accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <[email protected]>.

From acct 6.6.4-8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.