1.\" $NetBSD: accton.8,v 1.13 2010/01/26 06:03:02 mrg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the 17.\" NetBSD Project. See http://www.NetBSD.org/ for 18.\" information about NetBSD. 19.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 20.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 24.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 25.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 26.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 27.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 28.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 29.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 30.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 31.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" <<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>> 34.\" 35.Dd January 23, 2008 36.Dt ACCTON 8 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm accton 40.Nd enable/disable system accounting 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Ar file 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45With an argument naming an existing 46.Ar file , 47.Nm 48causes system accounting information for every process executed 49to be placed at the end of the file. If no argument is given, 50accounting is turned off. 51.Pp 52The default accounting file is 53.Pa /var/account/acct . 54Typically, accounting is enabled by rc scripts during the boot process. 55In 56.Nx , 57one may enable accounting by setting the variable 58.Dq accounting 59to 60.Dq YES 61in 62.Pa /etc/rc.conf . 63.Pp 64Note that, traditionally, the system accounting log file can not be rotated 65cleanly by 66.Xr newsyslog 8 . 67Instead, a default installation of 68.Nx 69rotates 70.Pa /var/account/acct 71using the 72.Pa /etc/daily 73script. 74.Sh FILES 75.Bl -tag -width /var/account/acct -compact 76.It Pa /var/account/acct 77Default accounting file. 78.El 79.Sh SEE ALSO 80.Xr lastcomm 1 , 81.Xr acct 5 , 82.Xr sa 8 83