<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Miscellaneous Process Accounting Commands</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.60"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Enabling Process Accounting on Linux HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Process Accounting Setup on Linux" HREF="pasetup.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Enabling Process Accounting on Linux HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="pasetup.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="MISCCOMMANDS" >7. Miscellaneous Process Accounting Commands</A ></H1 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >ac</B ></DT ><DD ><P ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >ac</B > prints out statistics about users' connection times in hours based on the logins and logouts in the current <TT CLASS="FILENAME" > /var/log/wtmp</TT > file. <B CLASS="COMMAND" >ac</B > is also capable of printing out time totals for each day (-d option), and for each user (-p option). </P ></DD ><DT ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >accton</B ></DT ><DD ><P ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >accton</B > is used to turn on or turn off process accounting. The file is normally executed at system bootup or shutdown via system init scripts. </P ></DD ><DT ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >last</B ></DT ><DD ><P ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >last</B > goes through the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/var/log/wtmp</TT > file and prints out information about users' connection times. </P ></DD ><DT ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >sa</B ></DT ><DD ><P ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >sa</B > summarizes accounting information from previously executed commands, software I/O operation times, and CPU times, as recorded in the accounting record file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" > /var/account/pacct</TT >. </P ></DD ><DT ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >lastcomm</B ></DT ><DD ><P ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >lastcomm</B > prints out the information about all previously executed commands, recorded in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/var/account/pacct</TT >. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pasetup.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Process Accounting Setup on Linux</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >