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diff --git a/man5/acct.5 b/man5/acct.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b1ebfe0a --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/acct.5 @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca) +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, +.\" USA. +.\" +.TH ACCT 5 2003-11-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +acct \- execution accounting file +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <sys/acct.h> +.SH DESCRIPTION +If the kernel was compiled with the process accounting option enabled, +the system call +.RS +acct("/somewhere/accountingfile"); +.RE +will start the process accounting. Each time a process terminates +a record for this process is appended to the accounting file. +The accounting structure +.B "struct acct" +is also described in the file +.IR /usr/include/linux/acct.h . +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR sa (1), +.BR acct (2) |