ACCT(5) Linux Programmer's Manual ACCT(5)

acct - execution accounting file

#include <sys/acct.h>

If the kernel was compiled with the process accounting option enabled, the system call

acct("/somewhere/accountingfile");
will start the process accounting. Each time a process terminates a record for this process is appended to the accounting file. The accounting structure struct acct is also described in the file /usr/include/linux/acct.h.

lastcomm(1), sa(1), acct(2), accton(8).

2003-11-01 Linux

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