Manual page for ACCT(2)
acct - turn accounting on or off
SYNOPSIS
acct(file)
char *file;
DESCRIPTION
The system is prepared to write a record
in an accounting
file
for each process as it terminates.
This
call, with a null-terminated string naming an existing file
as argument, turns on accounting;
records for each terminating process are appended to
file.
An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off.
The accounting file format is given in
acct.5
This call is permitted only to the super-user.
NOTES
Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
space once again becomes available.
RETURN VALUE
On error -1 is returned.
The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
It is erroneous to try to turn on accounting when it is already on.
ERRORS
Acct
will fail if one of the following is true:
- [EPERM]
-
The caller is not the super-user.
- [ENOTDIR]
-
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
- [EINVAL]
-
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
- [ENAMETOOLONG]
-
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
- [ENOENT]
-
The named file does not exist.
- [EACCES]
-
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
or the path name is not a regular file.
- [ELOOP]
-
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- [EROFS]
-
The named file resides on a read-only file system.
- [EFAULT]
-
File
points outside the process's allocated address space.
- [EIO]
-
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
SEE ALSO
acct(5), sa(8)
BUGS
No accounting is produced for programs running
when a crash occurs.
In particular non-terminating programs are never
accounted for.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
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Last modified 11/5/97
