acct (5)

ACCT(5) Linux Programmer's Manual ACCT(5) 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 /usr/include/linux/acct.h. SEE ALSO lastcomm(1), sa(1), acct(2), accton(8) Linux 2003-11-01 ACCT(5)