svn commit: r44400 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security

Dru Lavigne dru at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 31 17:56:13 UTC 2014


Author: dru
Date: Mon Mar 31 17:56:12 2014
New Revision: 44400
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44400

Log:
  Editorial review of Process Accounting.
  This section is a bit lean.
  
  Sponsored by:	iXsystems

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml	Mon Mar 31 17:01:17 2014	(r44399)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml	Mon Mar 31 17:56:12 2014	(r44400)
@@ -3492,12 +3492,17 @@ UWWemqWuz3lAZuORQ9KX
       their allocation among users, provide for system monitoring,
       and minimally track a user's commands.</para>
 
-    <para>This indeed has both positive and negative points.  One
+    <para>Process accounting has both positive and negative points.  One
       of the positives is that an intrusion may be narrowed down to
       the point of entry.  A negative is the amount of logs
       generated by process accounting, and the disk space they may
       require.  This section walks an administrator through the
       basics of process accounting.</para>
+      
+    <note>
+      <para>If more fine-grained accounting is needed, refer to
+	<xref linkend="audit"/>.</para>
+    </note>
 
     <sect2>
       <title>Enabling and Utilizing Process Accounting</title>
@@ -3513,16 +3518,17 @@ UWWemqWuz3lAZuORQ9KX
       <para>Once enabled, accounting will begin to track information
 	such as <acronym>CPU</acronym> statistics and executed
 	commands.  All accounting logs are in a non-human readable
-	format which can be viewed using &man.sa.8;.  If issued
-	without any options, &man.sa.8; prints information relating to
+	format which can be viewed using <command>sa</command>.  If issued
+	without any options, <command>sa</command> prints information relating to
 	the number of per-user calls, the total elapsed time in
 	minutes, total <acronym>CPU</acronym> and user time in
-	minutes, and the average number of I/O operations.</para>
-
-      <para>To view information about commands being issued, use
-	&man.lastcomm.1;.  This command displays the commands issued
-	by users on specific &man.ttys.5;.  For example, this command
-	prints out all known usage of &man.ls.1; by <systemitem
+	minutes, and the average number of <acronym>I/O</acronym> operations.  Refer to
+	&man.sa.8; for the list of available options which control the
+	output.</para>
+
+      <para>To display the commands issued
+	by users, use <command>lastcomm</command>.  For example, this command
+	prints out all usage of <command>ls</command> by <systemitem
 	  class="username">trhodes</systemitem> on the
 	<literal>ttyp1</literal> terminal:</para>
 


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