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ACCTON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual ACCTON(8)
NAME accton - enable/disable system accounting
SYNOPSIS accton [acctfile]
DESCRIPTION The accton utility is used for switching system accounting on or off. If called with the argument acctfile, system accounting is enabled. The acctfile specified must exist prior to starting system accounting, or accton will return an error. A record of every process that is started by the execve(2) system call and then later exits the system is stored in acctfile. The sa(8) command may be used to examine the accounting records. If no arguments are given, system accounting is disabled.
FILES /var/account/acct default accounting file
SEE ALSO lastcomm(1), acct(2), acct(5), sa(8)
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 May 21, 1993 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11