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.

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.
   on     Turns on process accounting using the default accounting
          file name.
   off    Turns off process accounting.

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(1)

                           2008 November 24                      ACCTON(8)

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