process accounting

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Dec 16 13:52:40 PST 2003


In the last episode (Dec 16), fbsd_user said:
> In the /stand/sysinstall/ under post configure is see option for
> process accounting.
> What is this?
> How can I find info about what this is and how to use it?

Each process that gets run will be logged into /var/account/acct.  You
can use the 'lastcomm' command to list the records, and the 'sa'
command to summarize them.  See the lastcomm and sa manpages for more
info.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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