acctprc(ADM)

acctprc: acctprc1, acctprc2 -- process accounting

Syntax

/usr/lib/acct/acctprc1 [ ctmp ]

/usr/lib/acct/acctprc2

Description

acctprc1 reads input in the form described by acct(FP), adds login names corresponding to user ID, then writes, for each process, an ASCII line detailing user ID login name, prime CPU time (tics), non-prime CPU time (tics), and mean memory size (in memory segment units). If ctmp is given, it is expected to contain a list of login sessions, in the form described in acctcon(ADM), sorted by user ID and login name. If this file is not supplied, it obtains login names from the password file. The information in ctmp helps it distinguish between different login names that share the same user ID.

acctprc2 reads records in the form written by acctprc1, summarizes them by user ID and name, then writes the sorted summaries to the standard output as total accounting records.

Examples

These commands are typically used as shown below:

acctprc1 ctmp </usr/adm/pacct | acctprc2 >ptacct

Limitations

Although it is possible to distinguish between login names that share user IDs for commands run normally, it is difficult to do this for those commands run from cron(C), for example. More precise conversion can be done by faking login sessions on the console via the acctwtmp program in acct(ADM).

Files

/etc/passwd

Standards conformance

acctprc1 and acctprc2 are conformant with AT&T SVID Issue 2.