acctsh(1M) System Administration Commands acctsh(1M)NAME
acctsh, chargefee, ckpacct, dodisk, lastlogin, monacct, nulladm,
prctmp, prdaily, prtacct, shutacct, startup, turnacct - shell proce‐
dures for accounting
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/chargefee login-name number
/usr/lib/acct/ckpacct [blocks]
/usr/lib/acct/dodisk [-o] [filename...]
/usr/lib/acct/lastlogin
/usr/lib/acct/monacct number
/usr/lib/acct/nulladm filename...
/usr/lib/acct/prctmp filename
/usr/lib/acct/prdaily [-c] [-l] [mmdd]
/usr/lib/acct/prtacct filename [ '' heading '']
/usr/lib/acct/shutacct [ '' reason '']
/usr/lib/acct/startup
/usr/lib/acct/turnacct on | off | switch
DESCRIPTIONchargefee Command
chargefee can be invoked to charge a number of units to login-name. A
record is written to /var/adm/fee, to be merged with other accounting
records by runacct(1M).
ckpacct Command
ckpacct should be initiated using cron(1M) to periodically check the
size of /var/adm/pacct. If the size exceeds blocks, 500 by default,
turnacct will be invoked with argument switch. To avoid a conflict with
turnacct switch execution in runacct, do not run ckpacct and runacct
simultaneously. If the number of free disk blocks in the /var file sys‐
tem falls below 500, ckpacct will automatically turn off the collec‐
tion of process accounting records via the off argument to turnacct.
When at least 500 blocks are restored, the accounting will be acti‐
vated again on the next invocation of ckpacct. This feature is sensi‐
tive to the frequency at which ckpacct is executed, usually by the
cron(1M) command.
dodisk Command
dodisk should be invoked by cron(1M) to perform the disk accounting
functions.
lastlogin Command
lastlogin is invoked by runacct(1M) to update /var/adm/acct/sum/login‐
log, which shows the last date on which each person logged in.
monacct Command
monacct should be invoked once each month or each accounting period.
number indicates which month or period it is. If number is not given,
it defaults to the current month (01−12). This default is useful if
monacct is to executed using cron(1M) on the first day of each month.
monacct creates summary files in /var/adm/acct/fiscal and restarts the
summary files in /var/adm/acct/sum.
nulladm Command
nulladm creates filename with mode 664 and ensures that owner and group
are adm. It is called by various accounting shell procedures.
prctmp Command
prctmp can be used to print the session record file (normally
/var/adm/acct/nite/ctmp created by acctcon1 (see acctcon(1M)).
prdaily Command
prdaily is invoked by runacct(1M) to format a report of the previous
day's accounting data. The report resides in
/var/adm/acct/sum/rprt/mmdd where mmdd is the month and day of the
report. The current daily accounting reports may be printed by typing
prdaily. Previous days' accounting reports can be printed by using the
mmdd option and specifying the exact report date desired.
prtacct Command
prtacct can be used to format and print any total accounting
(tacct)file.
shutacct Command
shutacct is invoked during a system shutdown to turn process accounting
off and append a reason record to /var/adm/wtmpx.
startup Command
startup can be invoked when the system is brought to a multi-user state
to turn process accounting on.
turnacct Command
turnacct is an interface to accton (see acct(1M)) to turn process
accounting on or off. The switch argument moves the current
/var/adm/pacct to the next free name in /var/adm/pacct.incr (where incr
is a number starting with 0 and incrementing by one for each addi‐
tional pacct file), then turns accounting back on again. This procedure
is called by ckpacct and thus can be taken care of by the cron(1M) com‐
mand and used to keep pacct to a reasonable size. shutacct uses tur‐
nacct to stop process accounting. startup uses turnacct to start
process accounting.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c This option prints a report of exceptional resource usage by
command, and may be used on current day's accounting data
only.
-l This option prints a report of exceptional usage by login id
for the specified date. Previous daily reports are cleaned up
and therefore inaccessible after each invocation of monacct.
-o This option uses acctdusg (see acct(1M)) to do a slower ver‐
sion of disk accounting by login directory. filenames speci‐
fies the one or more filesystem names where disk accounting
will be done. If filenames are used, disk accounting will be
done on these filesystems only. If the -o option is used,
filenames should be mount points of mounted filesystems. If
the -o option is omitted, filenames should be the special file
names of mountable filesystems.
FILES
/etc/logadm.conf
Configuration file for the logadm(1M) command
/usr/lib/acct
Holds all accounting commands listed in section 1M of this manual
/usr/lib/acct/ptecms.awk
Contains the limits for exceptional usage by command name
/usr/lib/acct/ptelus.awk
Contains the limits for exceptional usage by login ID
/var/adm/acct/fiscal
Fiscal reports directory
/var/adm/acct/nite
Working directory
/var/adm/acct/sum
Summary directory that contains information for monacct
/var/adm/acct/sum/loginlog
File updated by last login
/var/adm/fee
Accumulator for fees
/var/adm/pacct
Current file for per-process accounting
/var/adm/pacctincr
Used if pacct gets large and during execution of daily accounting
procedure
/var/adm/wtmpx
History of user access and administration information
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWaccu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOacctcom(1), acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M), acct‐
prc(1M), cron(1M), fwtmp(1M), logadm(1M), runacct(1M), acct(2),
acct.h(3HEAD), utmpx(4), attributes(5)NOTES
See runacct(1M) for the main daily accounting shell script, which per‐
forms the accumulation of connect, process, fee, and disk accounting on
a daily basis. It also creates summaries of command usage.
SunOS 5.10 15 Mar 2002 acctsh(1M)