accton (8)

NAME

accton - turns process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS

accton

[OPTION] on|off|filename

accton

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

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(1)