acct

NAME

acct - execution accounting file

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/acct.h>

DESCRIPTION

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 R /usr/include/linux/acct.h .

SEE ALSO

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