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30 .\" @(#)acct.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
37 .Nd enable or disable process accounting
43 .Fn acct "const char *file"
47 call enables or disables the collection of system accounting records.
52 accounting is disabled.
55 is an existing, NUL-terminated, pathname, record collection is enabled,
56 and for every process initiated which terminates under normal
57 conditions an accounting record is appended to
59 Abnormal conditions of termination are reboots or other fatal system problems.
60 Records for processes which never terminate can not be
64 For more information on the record structure used by
67 .Pa /usr/include/sys/acct.h
71 This call is permitted only to the super-user.
73 Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
74 accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
75 space once again becomes available.
78 creates a kernel thread called
81 On success, zero is returned.
82 Otherwise, \-1 is returned and
84 is set to indicate the error.
87 will fail if one of the following is true:
90 Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
91 or the path name is not a regular file.
94 points outside the process's allocated address space.
96 An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
98 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
99 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
100 A component of a pathname exceeded
102 characters, or an entire path name exceeded
106 The named file does not exist.
108 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
110 The caller is not the super-user.
112 The named file resides on a read-only file system.
117 fails if failed to create kernel thread described above.
130 function call appeared in