acct(5) [redhat man page]

ACCT(5) 							File Formats Manual							   ACCT(5)

NAME

       acct - execution accounting file

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/acct.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The  kernel maintains an accounting information structure for all processes. If a process terminates, and accounting is enabled, the kernel
       calls the acct(2) function to prepare, and then append, a record for this process to the accounting file. The accounting  structure  struct
       acct is also described in the file /usr/include/linux/acct.h.

SEE ALSO

       acct(2), sa(1)

Debian GNU/Linux						    1995-10-31								   ACCT(5)

acct(2) 							System Calls Manual							   acct(2)

NAME

       acct - Enables and disables process accounting

SYNOPSIS

       int acct (      char *path );

PARAMETERS

       Specifies a pointer to the pathname of the file, or specifies a null pointer.

DESCRIPTION

       The acct() function enables and disables UNIX process accounting.  When enabled, process accounting produces an accounting record on behalf
       of each terminating process.  The path parameter specifies the pathname of the file to which an accounting record  is  written.	 When  the
       path parameter is 0 (zero) or a null value, the acct() function disables the accounting routine.

       If the path parameter refers to a symbolic link, the acct() function writes records to the file pointed to by the symbolic link.

       If  Network  File  System is installed on your system, the accounting file can reside on another node.  To ensure accurate accounting, each
       node must have its own accounting file, which can be located on any node in the network.

       The calling process must have superuser privilege to enable or disable process accounting.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, the acct() function returns a value of 0 (zero).  Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned  and	errno  is  set	to
       indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If  the acct() function fails, errno may be set to one of the following values: The calling process does not have appropriate system privi-
       lege.  The file named by the path parameter does not exist.

       The file named by the path parameter is not an ordinary file.  Write permission is denied for the named accounting file.   The  named  file
       resides on a read-only file system.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Functions: exit(2), sigaction(2), sigvec(2), expacct(3), raise(3) delim off

																	   acct(2)