accton
—
enable/disable system accounting
With an argument naming an existing file,
accton
causes system accounting information for every
process executed to be placed at the end of the file. If no argument is given,
accounting is turned off.
The default accounting file is
/var/account/acct. Typically, accounting is enabled
by rc scripts during the boot process. In NetBSD,
one may enable accounting by setting the variable “accounting”
to “YES” in /etc/rc.conf.
Note that, traditionally, the system accounting log file can not
be rotated cleanly by
newsyslog(8). Instead, a
default installation of NetBSD rotates
/var/account/acct using the
/etc/daily script.
- /var/account/acct
- Default accounting file.