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. If called with no arguments, it will, by default, stop 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.

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(8)

2008 November 24 ACCTON(8)