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ACCTON(8) System Manager's Manual ACCTON(8)
accton - turns process accounting on or off
accton [OPTION] on|off|filename accton [ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ]
accton filename turns on process accounting.
-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.
acct The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or pacct(5)) for further details.
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>.
acct(5), ac(1)
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