accton(8) - Linux man page
Name
accton - turns process accounting on or off
Synopsis
- accton
[ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ] [ filename ]
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)
