1 .\" $NetBSD: acct.2,v 1.15 2003/08/07 16:43:55 agc Exp $
3 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
4 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
6 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
7 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
9 .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
10 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
11 .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
12 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
13 .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
14 .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
15 .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
16 .\" without specific prior written permission.
18 .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
19 .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
20 .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
21 .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
22 .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
23 .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
24 .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
25 .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
26 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
27 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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
51 is a nil pointer, accounting is disabled.
56 pathname (null-terminated), record collection is enabled and for
57 every process initiated which terminates under normal
58 conditions an accounting record is appended to
60 Abnormal conditions of termination are reboots
61 or other fatal system problems.
62 Records for processes which never terminate can not be
66 For more information on the record structure used by
69 .Pa /usr/include/sys/acct.h
73 This call is permitted only to the super-user.
75 Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
76 accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
77 space once again becomes available.
80 creates a kernel thread called
83 On error \-1 is returned.
84 The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
87 will fail if one of the following is true:
90 The caller is not the super-user.
92 A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
93 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
94 A component of a pathname exceeded
96 characters, or an entire path name exceeded
100 The named file does not exist.
102 Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
103 or the path name is not a regular file.
105 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
107 The named file resides on a read-only file system.
110 points outside the process's allocated address space.
112 An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
116 fails if failed to create kernel thread described above.
129 function call appeared in