ACCT

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NAME

acct - turn accounting on or off  

SYNOPSIS

acct(file)
char *file;  

DESCRIPTION

The system is prepared to write a record in an accounting file for each process as it terminates. This call, with a null-terminated string naming an existing file as argument, turns on accounting; records for each terminating process are appended to file. An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off.

The accounting file format is given in acct(5).  

SEE ALSO

acct(5), sa(1)  

DIAGNOSTICS

On error -1 is returned. The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user. It is erroneous to try to turn on accounting when it is already on.  

BUGS

No accounting is produced for programs running when a crash occurs. In particular nonterminating programs are never accounted for.  

ASSEMBLER

(acct = 51.)
sys acct; file


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
ASSEMBLER

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