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accton - turns process accounting on or off

[OPTION] on|off|filename
[ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

accton filename turns on process accounting.

Print the version number of ac to standard output and quit.
Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.
Turns on process accounting using the default accounting file name.
Turns off process accounting.

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)

2008 November 24