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34.Dd March 15, 1994
35.Dt AC 8
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm ac
39.Nd connect time accounting
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl dp
43.\".Op Fl c Ar console
44.Op Fl t Ar tty
45.Op Fl w Ar wtmp
46.Op Ar users ...
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48If the file
49.Pa /var/log/wtmp
50exists, a record of individual login and logout
51times are written to it by
52.Xr login 1
53and
54.Xr init 8 ,
55respectively.
56The
57.Nm
58utility
59examines these records and writes the accumulated connect time (in hours)
60for all logins to the standard output.
61.Pp
62The options are as follows:
63.Bl -tag -width indentXXX
64.It Fl d
65Display the connect times in 24 hour chunks.
66.\" .It Fl c Ar console
67.\" Use
68.\" .Ar console
69.\" as the name of the device that local X sessions (ut_host of ":0.0")
70.\" originate from.  If any login has been recorded on
71.\" .Ar console
72.\" then these X sessions are ignored unless COMPAT_SUNOS was defined at
73.\" compile time.
74.It Fl p
75Print individual users' totals.
76.It Fl t Ar tty
77Only do accounting logins on certain ttys.  The
78.Ar tty
79specification can start with '!' to indicate not this
80.Ar tty
81and end with '*' to indicate all similarly named ttys.
82Multiple
83.Fl t
84flags may be specified.
85.It Fl w Ar wtmp
86Read connect time data from
87.Ar wtmp
88instead of the default file,
89.Pa /var/log/wtmp .
90.It Ar users ...
91Display totals for the given individuals only.
92.El
93.Pp
94If no arguments are given,
95.Nm
96displays the total connect time for all
97accounts with login sessions recorded in
98.Pa wtmp .
99.Pp
100The default
101.Pa wtmp
102file will increase without bound unless it is truncated.
103It is normally truncated by the daily scripts run
104by
105.Xr cron 8 ,
106which rename and rotate the
107.Pa wtmp
108files, keeping a week's worth of data on
109hand.  No login or connect time accounting is performed if
110.Pa /var/log/wtmp
111does not exist.
112.Pp
113For example,
114.Bd -literal -offset
115ac -p -t "ttyd*" > modems
116ac -p -t "!ttyd*" > other
117.Ed
118.Pp
119allows times recorded in
120.Pa modems
121to be charged out at a different rate than
122.Pa other .
123.Sh FILES
124.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp -compact
125.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
126connect time accounting file
127.El
128.Sh EXIT STATUS
129.Ex -std
130.Sh SEE ALSO
131.Xr login 1 ,
132.Xr utmp 5 ,
133.Xr init 8 ,
134.Xr sa 8
135.\" .Sh NOTES
136.\" If COMPAT_SUNOS is defined
137.\" .Nm ac
138.\" ignores the fact that entries with ut_host of ":0.0" are not real
139.\" login sessions.  Normally such entries are ignored except in the case
140.\" of a user being logged in when the
141.\" .Pa wtmp
142.\" file was rotated, in which case a login with ut_host of ":0.0" may
143.\" appear without any preceding console logins.
144.\" If no one is logged in on the console, the user is deemed to have
145.\" logged in on at the earliest time stamp found in
146.\" .Pa wtmp .
147.\" Use of
148.\" .Pa console
149.\" allows
150.\" .Nm ac
151.\" to identify and correctly process a logout for the user.  The default
152.\" value for
153.\" .Pa console
154.\" is usually correct at compile time.
155