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GNU acct

The GNU Accounting utilities `ac', `accton', `last', `lastcomm', and `sa' add login and process accounting support to GNU/Linux. "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system.

Last updated 23 May, 2005


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Leadership
  • Ciaran O'Riordan - Maintainer
  • See the 'accounting.info' file in the distribution for a complete list - Contributor
Requirements
  • Kernel level support for process and login accounting. This is enabled in Linux by selecting the option "BSD-style process accounting" during compilation. (Use Requirement)
Subprograms

ac, accton, last, lastcomm, sa, dump-utmp, dump-acct

Versions

6.3.2

6.3.2 stable released 1998-03-10

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User manual available in HTML, Info, PostScript, TeX dvi, PDF, ASCII, TeXinfo from http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/manual/accounting.html

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