The
accton
utility is used
for switching system accounting on or off.
If called with the argument
acctfile,
system accounting is enabled.
The
acctfile
specified must exist prior to starting system accounting, or
accton
will return an error.
A record of every process that is started by the
execve(2)
system call and then later exits the system is stored in
acctfile.
The
sa(8)
command may be used to examine the accounting records.
If no arguments are given, system accounting is disabled.
