acct

acct - GNU system accounting utilities

The GNU Accounting utilities `ac', `accton', `last', `lastcomm', and `sa' add login and process accounting support to GNU/Linux. "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system.

Obtaining

Web page	http://sv.gnu.org/projects/acct/
Source tarball	http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/acct/acct_6.3.5.orig.tar.gz

Version 6.3.5 (stable) released on 1998-05-26

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual available in HTML, Info, PostScript, TeX dvi, PDF, ASCII, TeXinfo from http://www.gnu.org/manual/acct-6.3.2/accounting.html

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-acct@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran@member.fsf.org>
Developers	Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran@member.fsf.org>
Contributors	See the 'accounting.info' file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	ac, accton, last, lastcomm, sa, dump-utmp, dump-acct
Source languages	C
Use requirements	Kernel level support for process and login accounting. This is enabled in Linux by selecting the option "BSD-style process accounting" during compilation.

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-07-20
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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