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<<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>>
.Dd January 23, 2008 .Dt ACCTON 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm accton .Nd enable/disable system accounting .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar file .Sh DESCRIPTION With an argument naming an existing .Ar file , .Nm 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.
Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou
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<<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>>
.Dd January 23, 2008 .Dt ACCTON 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm accton .Nd enable/disable system accounting .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar file .Sh DESCRIPTION With an argument naming an existing .Ar file , .Nm 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.
p The default accounting file is
a /var/account/acct . Typically, accounting is enabled by rc scripts during the boot process. In .Nx , one may enable accounting by setting the variable .Dq accounting to .Dq YES in
p Note that, traditionally, the system accounting log file can not be rotated cleanly by .Xr newsyslog 8 . Instead, a default installation of .Nx rotates
a /etc/daily script. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /var/account/acct -compact t Pa /var/account/acct Default accounting file. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr lastcomm 1 , .Xr acct 5 , .Xr sa 8